Fr%C3%A4ulein (1958 film)


Frulein is a 1958 romance film starring Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer as two people caught up in World War II and the aftermath. It was also released as Fraulein.

Not long afterwards, a bomb strikes the house, killing the professor. Erika goes to live with her cousin Karl Herbert Berghof. Karl has lodgers, Fritz and Berta Graubach Luis van Rooten and Blandine Ebinger, who are outspoken supporters of the Nazi cause. When the Russians capture the city, Erika hides in the attic for fear of being raped. However, Berta betrays Erikas existence in order to save herself, and a drunken corporal starts up the stairs. Karl is killed trying to stop him. The Russian chases Erika out on the roof, but slips and falls to his death, and Erika is charged with his murder.Colonel Dmitri Brikett Theodore Bikel is attracted to her and saves her life, though he expects a sexual reward. However, Erika manages to flee to the Americancontrolled sector of the city with the assistance of Lori Dolores Michaels, a nightclub piano player. There, she runs into the Graubachs, who now claim they always opposed the Nazis. The Graubachs insist she come stay with them. She finds out later that they are running a brothel and want to employ her. She flees, but not before they have already registered her as a prostitute with the American authorities. They pursue her, but a kindly military policeman, Corporal Hanks James Edwards, blocks them. ........

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