A Love in Germany

The story

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

H Hanna SchygullaPauline Kropp P Piotr ŁysakStanislaus A Armin Mueller-StahlMayer R Ralf WolterSchulze D Daniel OlbrychskiWiktorczyk B Bernhard WickiDr. Borg G Gérard DesartheKarl Wyler E Elisabeth TrissenaarElisabeth Schnittgens S Sigfrit SteinerMelchior E Erika WackernagelFrau Melchior B Ben BeckerKlaus O Otto SanderNarrator

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F Friedrich G. BeckhausZinngruber G Gernot DudaStackmann S Serge MerlinAlker T Thomas RingelmannHerbert H Heidi JoschkoFrau Zinngruber I Ilse BahrsFrau Schnittgens, old M Marie-Hélène DastéMaria Wyler, old M Marie-Christine BarraultMaria Wyler J Jürgen Born1 Policeman D Dieter Kursawe2 Policeman E Ellen EsserPrison Guard C Christoph BeyerttPatient E Evelyn MeykaNun H Herbert WeißbachDruggist G Gudrun GeierOld Lady R Rainer BasedowStackmann's Son (uncredited) U Ulrich HeimannPrisoner of War (uncredited) G Gerd HoltenauChief Physician (uncredited) H Hannes KaetnerKlages (uncredited) D Dieter KirchlechnerMari De Paulina (uncredited) J Jutta KlöppelStackmann's Stepdaughter (uncredited) A André MantzPrisoner of War (uncredited) D Dietrich MattauschCounsel (uncredited) D Dorothea MoritzMartha (uncredited) B Bernhard PapkeSoldier (uncredited) G Gundula PetrovskaPostal Employee (uncredited) J Jürgen von Alten(uncredited)