A Love in Germany
26/10/1983
2h 12m
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Cast
Hanna Schygulla
Pauline Kropp
Piotr Łysak
Stanislaus
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Mayer
Ralf Wolter
Schulze
Daniel Olbrychski
Wiktorczyk
Bernhard Wicki
Dr. Borg
Gérard Desarthe
Karl Wyler
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Elisabeth Schnittgens
Sigfrit Steiner
Melchior
Erika Wackernagel
Frau Melchior
Ben Becker
Klaus
Otto Sander
Narrator
Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Zinngruber
Gernot Duda
Stackmann
Serge Merlin
Alker
Thomas Ringelmann
Herbert
Heidi Joschko
Frau Zinngruber
Ilse Bahrs
Frau Schnittgens, old
Marie-Hélène Dasté
Maria Wyler, old
Marie-Christine Barrault
Maria Wyler
Jürgen Born
1 Policeman
Dieter Kursawe
2 Policeman
Ellen Esser
Prison Guard
Christoph Beyertt
Patient
Evelyn Meyka
Nun
Herbert Weißbach
Druggist
Gudrun Geier
Old Lady
Rainer Basedow
Stackmann's Son (uncredited)
Ulrich Heimann
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Gerd Holtenau
Chief Physician (uncredited)
Hannes Kaetner
Klages (uncredited)
Dieter Kirchlechner
Mari De Paulina (uncredited)
Jutta Klöppel
Stackmann's Stepdaughter (uncredited)
André Mantz
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Dietrich Mattausch
Counsel (uncredited)
Dorothea Moritz
Martha (uncredited)
Bernhard Papke
Soldier (uncredited)
Gundula Petrovska
Postal Employee (uncredited)
Jürgen von Alten
(uncredited)
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