A Love in Germany

2h 12m

4.9

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

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Daniel Olbrychski

Gérard Desarthe

Elisabeth Trissenaar

Elisabeth Schnittgens

Sigfrit Steiner

Erika Wackernagel

Friedrich G. Beckhaus

Thomas Ringelmann

Frau Zinngruber

Frau Schnittgens, old

Marie-Hélène Dasté

Maria Wyler, old

Marie-Christine Barrault

Christoph Beyertt

Herbert Weißbach

Stackmann's Son (uncredited)

Prisoner of War (uncredited)

Chief Physician (uncredited)

Klages (uncredited)

Dieter Kirchlechner

Mari De Paulina (uncredited)

Stackmann's Stepdaughter (uncredited)

Prisoner of War (uncredited)

Dietrich Mattausch

Counsel (uncredited)

Dorothea Moritz

Martha (uncredited)

Soldier (uncredited)

Gundula Petrovska

Postal Employee (uncredited)

Jürgen von Alten

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Agnieszka Holland

Bolesław Michałek

Halina Prugar-Ketling

Director of Photography

Krystyna Zachwatowicz

Original Music Composer