A Love in Germany

A Love in Germany

Drama|

4/10

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.

Hanna Schygulla

Piotr Łysak

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Ralf Wolter

Daniel Olbrychski

Bernhard Wicki

Gérard Desarthe

Elisabeth Trissenaar

Sigfrit Steiner

Erika Wackernagel

Ben Becker

Otto Sander

Friedrich G. Beckhaus

Gernot Duda

Serge Merlin

Thomas Ringelmann

Heidi Joschko

Ilse Bahrs

Marie-Hélène Dasté

Marie-Christine Barrault

Jürgen Born

Dieter Kursawe

Ellen Esser

Christoph Beyertt

Evelyn Meyka

Herbert Weißbach

Gudrun Geier

Rainer Basedow

Ulrich Heimann

Gerd Holtenau

Hannes Kaetner

Dieter Kirchlechner

Jutta Klöppel

André Mantz

Dietrich Mattausch

Dorothea Moritz

Bernhard Papke

Gundula Petrovska

Jürgen von Alten