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After seeing Erika with Adolf Hitler in a newsreel filmed during the war, Phoebe asks John to take her to army headquarters after hours to retrieve the singer's official file. In order to distract her, John woos Phoebe, who initially resists his romantic advances but eventually succumbs to his charms.
A Foreign Affair: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell. In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Billy Wilder
- 1948-08-20
Mar 3, 2015 · Writer/director Billy Wilder’s film A Foreign Affair (1948) in particular is one of the American films in the cycle representing some of the different discourses at play in the representation of US foreign policy in terms of a kind of Cinderella romance: how America ends up seducing the orphaned child of Europe.
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Mar 16, 2020 · Rubble romance: A Foreign Affair. (Billy Wilder, 1948) Jeremy Carr. March 2020. CTEQ Annotations on Film. Issue 94. A United States congressional envoy flies over bombed-out Berlin, its members on their way to the East German city to evaluate the morale of occupying American servicemen.
A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ) By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 23, 2023 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers. During World War II, the American, British, and Russian forces bombed Berlin until it was a heap of concrete rubble.
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- Billy Wilder
- Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
- Charles Brackett
Tweet. “A large part of this picture was photographed in Berlin,” says a title at the start of this lesser-known Billy Wilder classic released in 1948. And it shows, with fascinating footage of bombed-out buildings, shattered facades and a city palpably still reeling from the brutal end of World War II. It’s only one of the interesting ...
A prim Congresswoman gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany.
