A Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany) (1983)

Hanna Schygulla, Marie-Christine Barrault, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Daniel Olbrychski ... see more  , Piotr Lysak , Gérard Desarthe , Bernhard Wicki , Ralf Wolter , Otto Sander , Ben Becker , Sigfrit Steiner , Dorothea Moritz , Friedrich Georg Beckhaus , Dieter Kirchlechner , Dietrich Mattausch , Serge Merlin , Erika Wackernagel , Gert Holtenau , Jutta Kloppel , Herbert Weissbach , Ilse Bahrs , Gernot Duda , Ellen Esser , Hannes Kaetner , Rainer Basedow

Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Ha... read more nna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper (Armin Müller-Stahl) and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with someone who was not of the same high Aryan caste as herself. Depressing, yet politically relevant to Poland of the early 1980s, this film by acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda) is an effective and emotional statement on the nature of oppression. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi