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A Foreign Affair
A Foreign Affair
7.6
/10
925 Ratings

A FOREIGN AFFAIR

Directed by Billy Wilder
United States, 1948
Comedy, Romance

Synopsis

Congresswoman Phoebe Frost travels to postwar Berlin to investigate reports that an American officer may be protecting cabaret singer Erika von Schlütow, the former mistress of a leading Nazi. Miss Frost falls for her military escort Captain Pringle, unaware that he is in fact the singer’s paramour.

Synopsis

Congresswoman Phoebe Frost travels to postwar Berlin to investigate reports that an American officer may be protecting cabaret singer Erika von Schlütow, the former mistress of a leading Nazi. Miss Frost falls for her military escort Captain Pringle, unaware that he is in fact the singer’s paramour.

Our take

A classic of post-war and early Cold War cinema, Billy Wilder showcases a decimated Berlin in this genre-bender starring Marlene Dietrich. Nominated for screenwriting Oscar, the film remarkably finds comedy and love in the ruins, but never fails to take a grave look at Allied-occupied Germany.