A Love in Germany

R

1983

1h 47m

Drama

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55%

22 Reviews

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67%

50+ Ratings

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A German woman (Hanna Schygulla) has an affair with a World War II Polish POW (Piotr Lysak).

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Critics Consensus

Hanna Schygulla's thoroughly compelling performance isn't quite enough to outweigh A Love in Germany's leaden execution -- but it comes close.

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Hanna Schygulla, is involved

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Andrzej Wajda

Director

Hanna Schygulla

Paulina Kropp

Piotr Lysak

Stanislaus

Marie-Christine Barrault

Maria Wyler

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Mayer

Elisabeth Trissenaar

Elsbeth Schnittgens

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Rita Kempley

Washington Post

While you know it's all going to turn out rather badly, you can't help but be seduced by star Hanna Schygulla.

Mar 24, 2020

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Jill Forbes

Sight & Sound

Though A Love in Germany may well be about 'ordinary' fascism it fails to measure up to the competition of Germany, Pale Mother and others of that kind.

Mar 24, 2020

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

[Schygulla] gives what must be called a triumphant performance, one that ranks with the best of her work with Fassbinder, in a film that must be the most romantic ever made by Mr. Wajda.

Mar 24, 2020

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Gregory Solman

Boston Phoenix

Wajda's lovers are arrogantly inarticulate, neither beautiful nor expressive. And their relationship is completely tangential to the findings of his modern investigators.

Oct 8, 2021

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Michael Lasky

Bay Area Reporter

A Love In Germany is a provocative film which captures the ruthlessness of propaganda and the ease with which it can sway people's minds and create an inhumane tyranny of the human spirit.

May 7, 2020

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Susan Shapiro

Sojourner

Hanna Shygulla's "great passion" for her Polish prisoner-of-war lover in Nazi Germany is totally unbelievable.

Mar 24, 2020

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Synopsis

A German woman (Hanna Schygulla) has an affair with a World War II Polish POW (Piotr Lysak).

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Producer: Lise Fayolle
Screenwriter: Andrzej Wajda, Boleslaw Michalek, Agnieszka Holland
Production Co: C.C.C. Filmkunst, Stand'art Productions, TF1 Films Production, Gaumont
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 1h 47m