A Love in Germany
Eine Liebe in Deutschland A Love in Germany is a 1983 feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
The story takes place in a little German town at the border to Switzerland. The owner of the local fruitandvegetables shop has been called up. His shop has a key function for the towns supply situation. His customers know from World War I how rationing can make the owner of such a shop very rich if only hes egoistic enough to get corrupted by wellheeled customers who dont care whether their poorer country fellowmens families starve. So when his wife Paulina starts to run the shop alone, her character is subsequently of public interest for all citizens who are concerned about the wellbeing of their families during the ongoing war. Paulina shares the fate of other soldiers wives who constantly face the fear her husband might return crippled, maimed or not at all. But because her husbands shop is highly important for the towns community, she gets somebody who can ease her working load. She is also luckier than other women for she is still young and attractive. So is the prisoner of war named Stanislaus who must serve her. She obviously finds him handsome and relishes that he has to obey all her commands. So she decides she doesnt need to be one of the lonesome wives anymore. When she seduces him she finds him very virile and they sometimes celebrate their love even literally in the open. Finally a towns official informs her that her evident bliss leads other women to doubts about her integrity. Still she doesnt let go of her love affair although the town official keeps on warning her that under the prevailing Nazi laws her adultery is punishable as Rassenschande. Paulina keeps on putting the Polish POW in lethal danger until he is finally taken to court and sentenced to death. Paulina is imprisoned for two years. Decades later her son and her grandson visit the still existing little town in order to confront the man who warned Paulina repeatedly but in the end let her go down. The both of them are appalled when they realise he still lives in the very town where the ci
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