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A Foreign Affair

""A Foreign Affair" is a funny affair!"

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

Top Cast

  • Jean Arthur

    Jean Arthur

    Congresswoman Phoebe Frost

  • Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich

    Erika Von Schlüetow

  • John Lund

    John Lund

    Captain John Pringle

  • Millard Mitchell

    Millard Mitchell

    Col. Rufus J. Plummer

  • Peter von Zerneck

    Peter von Zerneck

    Hans Otto Birgel

  • Stanley Prager

    Stanley Prager

    Mike

  • William Murphy

    William Murphy

    Joe

  • Gordon Jones

    Gordon Jones

    Military Police

  • Freddie Steele

    Freddie Steele

    Military Police

Overview

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

Rating

7.1 / 10
159 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Jul 9, 2022

    Billy Wilder pulls together a great script and two engaging performances from Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich in this entertaining story of a US Congresswoman who visits post-war Berlin to check up on the morals of the American troops. She falls for one of them who just happens to be already spoken for. There ensues a bit of a tug-of-war between the two women over the rather charmless John Lund. Millard Mitchell is good value as the war-weary colonel; there are enough Dietrich songs to keep her fans content and we even get a twist at the end. There may well have been some murmurings Stateside once this film was released. It doesn't exactly show the Yanks in a great light as they party and black-market their way through a bomb wrecked Berlin but it does demonstrate the need for a "release" for so many from the years of war and deprivation with style and occasionally, some humour.

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