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Director:
Billy Wilder
Writers:
Charles Brackett (screenplay)
Richard L. Breen (screenplay)
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Release Date:
20 August 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
It would make a cigar store Indian laugh ...
Plot:
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 nomination more
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Incredible more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jean Arthur ... Congresswoman Phoebe Frost

Marlene Dietrich ... Erika Von Schluetow
John Lund ... Captain John Pringle
Millard Mitchell ... Col. Rufus J. Plummer
Peter von Zerneck ... Hans Otto Birgel
Stanley Prager ... Mike
William Murphy ... Joe (as Bill Murphy)
Raymond Bond ... Congressman Pennecot
Boyd Davis ... Congressman Giffin
Robert Malcolm ... Congressman Kramer
Charles Meredith ... Congressman Yandell
Michael Raffetto ... Congressman Salvatore
Damian O'Flynn ... Lieutenant Colonel
Frank Fenton ... Major Mathews
James Larmore ... Lieutenant Hornby
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Additional Details

Runtime:
116 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Hungary:14 | Australia:G | Germany:12 | USA:Approved (PCA #12791)
Filming Locations:
Berlin, Germany

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Cameo: ['Frederick Hollander']Erika's piano player in the cabaret. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Though the character played by Jean Arthur is an 'unmarried' American Congresswoman, the actress's real life wedding ring is visible in many scenes especially close-ups during the latter part of the film. more
Quotes:
Erika von Schluetow: We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs... yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Billy Wilder Speaks (2006) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
BLACK MARKET more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Incredible, 7 June 2001
10/10
Author: Lutz Töpfer (luz9@aol.com) from Bonn, Germany

Billy, just how did you do it?

This is a superb film on post-war Germany, and an amazing take on Berlin in the late 40s. Wilder combines his poetical eye for the comic with a very subtle analysis of morality. And, on top of that, Marlene Dietrich sings and sums it all up. This film is a classic, make no mistake about that, and you definitely want to see it. Plus, it's history.

Billy Wilder had a special relationship with Berlin, and, to be sure, with Germany, and his movies show how deep this understanding ran: "One,Two, Three" and "A Foreign Affair" are among the best films made on Berlin. Full stop.

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