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A Foreign Affair

  • 1948
  • Approved
  • 1h 56m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
7,3/10
9,1 k
MA NOTE
Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur, and John Lund in A Foreign Affair (1948)
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SatireComedyDramaRomance

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  • Director
    • Billy Wilder
  • Writers
    • Charles Brackett
    • Billy Wilder
    • Richard L. Breen
  • Stars
    • Jean Arthur
    • Marlene Dietrich
    • John Lund
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    7,3/10
    9,1 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Billy Wilder
    • Writers
      • Charles Brackett
      • Billy Wilder
      • Richard L. Breen
    • Stars
      • Jean Arthur
      • Marlene Dietrich
      • John Lund
    • 80Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 62Commentaires de critiques
    • 75Métascore
  • Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro
    • Nommé pour 2 oscars
      • 2 victoires et 3 nominations au total

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    Rôles principaux89

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    Jean Arthur
    Jean Arthur
    • Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
    Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich
    • Erika Von Schluetow
    John Lund
    John Lund
    • Capt. John Pringle
    Millard Mitchell
    Millard Mitchell
    • Col. Rufus J. Plummer
    Peter von Zerneck
    • Hans Otto Birgel
    Stanley Prager
    Stanley Prager
    • Mike
    William Murphy
    William Murphy
    • Joe
    • (as Bill Murphy)
    Raymond Bond
    • Congressman Pennecot
    Boyd Davis
    • Congressman Giffin
    Robert Malcolm
    Robert Malcolm
    • Congressman Kramer
    Charles Meredith
    Charles Meredith
    • Congressman Yandell
    Michael Raffetto
    Michael Raffetto
    • Congressman Salvatore
    Damian O'Flynn
    Damian O'Flynn
    • Lieutenant Colonel
    Frank Fenton
    Frank Fenton
    • Maj. Mathews
    James Lorimer
    • Lt. Hornby
    • (as James Larmore)
    Harland Tucker
    • Gen. McAndrew
    Bill Neff
    • Lieutenant Lee Thompson
    • (as William Neff)
    George M. Carleton
    George M. Carleton
    • General Finney
    • (as George Carleton)
    • Director
      • Billy Wilder
    • Writers
      • Charles Brackett
      • Billy Wilder
      • Richard L. Breen
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs80

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    ChWasser

    "Want to buy some illusions?"

    Why is this film less known than "Casablanca" or "The Third Man"? Maybe it's because many see it as "just" a comedy, which these people consider a "lesser" art-form. In my opinion they miss that the brilliant screenplay just smoothes out the edges and puts some very sharp and witty dialogue on a plot and setting, which is actually very "noir"ish at heart. I guess it takes someone like Billy Wilder, who returned with this film to a city where he once lived (and that he loved), to discover the comic effect of a "weight-challenged" GI with a bunch of flowers and a dachshund on the lead walking to his "Fräulein" through the ruins of a bombed-out street. Less ingenious directors probably would have indulged in mourning and (self)-pity, which is exactly why many German movies from that immediate post-war time are unwatchable (unless you are fascinated by the morbid beauty of the ruins and rubble).

    As a German my only minor quibble with "A Foreign Affair" is the German dialogue (not the occasional "Strudel" and "Gesundheit" from the American actors, but the actual German by supporting actors and extras): in most cases it sounds embarrassingly dumb, even feebleminded. Apart from one scene that has the same level of cynicism as the English dialogue (the choleric policeman asking "You live? Do you have permission?" after the "Lorelei" round-up), only Marlene Dietrich is allowed to talk normally.

    Otherwise it's one of Billy Wilder's best films (which is synonymous with being one of the best films of all time). Unfortunately you don't get characters like Captain Renault ("Casablanca"), Major Calloway ("The Third Man") or Colonel Plummer ("A Foreign Affair") anymore in contemporary films. A pity!
    9s.knowles

    an excellent film

    This is a well written (Brackett and Breen) and directed (Billy Wilder) film with great performances. Marlene Dietrich is impressive as the Nazi chanteuse with loose morals, great legs and an eye for the main chance. Her songs e.g. Ruins of Berlin are sardonic and compelling. Jean Arthur is irresistible as the frustrated Congresswoman, throwing herself at John Lund with enthusiasm and gradually coming to see human behaviour in shades of grey, rather than black and white.

    John Lund is very good as the cynical army officer, attracted to Dietrich while repelled by her politics and prepared to romance Arthur in order to bury Dietrich's Nazi past. He has a nice way with underplayed humour e.g. "It can't be subversive to kiss a Republican!" Supporting actors, especially Millard Mitchell as Col Plummer are all good.

    Berlin makes a bleak impressive backdrop, making the behaviour of the occupying troops and the Berliners easy to understand. There are some lovely vignettes e.g. the German woman pushing a pram decorated with the US flag.

    Unfortunately the film was perceived as unpatriotic by many critics and did not do as much for the career of John Lund as it should.
    8pzanardo

    An outstanding, interesting, entertaining movie

    The main impression left by "A Foreign Affair" is Billy Wilder's nobility toward German people. With authentic magnanimity, he chooses to represent Germans as a pitiful people struggling to survive, not a cruel enemy to hate. The movie has an intrinsic historical interest, since it was filmed in 1948 Berlin, completely destroyed by bombs. As usual in Wilder's works, the plot is beautifully constructed, the dialogue is witty and funny, irony, sarcasm and anti-rhetoric are spread along the movie. In the opening scenes we see army captain John Lund at the black-market, selling a cake, hand-made by his American sweetheart and coming from the States, to buy a gift for his Berliner lover Marlene Dietrich. By the way, Dietrich and most Berliner women seem to be on the verge of prostitution, just to get primary goods to survive in post-war disaster. Lund meets Jean Arthur, a US congresswoman committed in hunting nazi war criminals. As a matter of fact, we follow Lund's attempts to destroy evidence of Dietrich's nazi past: a behavior by the captain not exactly patriotic, nor ethic. The finale is deeper than it appears at a first sight: brutal tyranny, based on terror and slaughter, is doomed to be annihilated, buried under the rubble; pretty girls remain, helping us to spend our life on this unhappy earth.
    8rhoda-9

    A little history is a useful thing

    Though the plot of A Foreign Affair is lightweight and has seen service in many other movies (wholesome woman and sexy woman pursuing the same man; man pretends to fall for woman and then really does), the backdrop is deadly serious, compelling, and unusual. We are in the American Zone of Berlin after the war, a sector that, with the British and French zones, would soon become West Berlin, a magnet for many who would struggle to escape to this tiny outpost of the West in what would become Communist East Germany, many of them dying in the attempt. The Berlin Wall would be built to separate West from East Berlin. The Germans in the movie have had their world destroyed, don't know what is going on in the present, and can only wait with helpless terror for the future.

    Though we are shown houses pulverised by Allied bombing and people living amongst the ruins, there is a lighthearted aspect to it all--the usual wartime stuff of GI's trading chocolate or stockings for kisses from pretty girls. In reality, however, it was more likely that they would be traded for sex from women desperate to feed themselves and their children, by soldiers reveling in a power they never had in civilian life and oblivious to the disgust and humiliation of the women. Marlene Dietrich says that, when the Russian troops invaded Berlin, "it was hard for the women." That's the understatement of the century! The Russians raped, and gang-raped, any women they could find--women died from being literally raped to death. It is understandable that Billy Wilder did not want to make the milieu too bleak in order to dampen the comedy, but keep in mind that matters were far more brutal and squalid than portrayed here.

    It is a rather dark joke that Dietrich is cast in the role of a German woman who has had Nazi lovers and still feels loyal to Hitler. In fact, Dietrich became an American citizen in 1939 and extensively toured US military bases, sometimes at great danger, to entertain the troops. This aroused rage in Germany, and even decades after the war, as the result of protests by locals who called her a traitor, the government backed down and did not name a street in her honour. Can you beat that! An amusing footnote: When Dietrich tries her wiles on an officer, he says, Don't be silly, I've just become a grandfather. I don't know whether this was coincidence or intentional, but at the time the movie was made, Dietrich became a grandmother--an event that gave her a label that was very popular, but which she hated, "world's most glamorous grandmother."
    drednm

    A Moment in Cinema: Dietrich Sings "Black Market"

    in this excellent and underrated Billy Wilder film. Dietrich plays a former Nazi trying to hide behind a post-war American boyfriend. Jean Arthur plays a spinster American congresswoman, and John Lund is the man they both fall for. The scenes of bombed-out Berlin are astonishing, and the 3 stars are wonderful in this sly comedy that gets better with every viewing. The highlights tho are Dietrich's musical numbers sung in a basement speakeasy. She sings the great "Black Market" with composer Frederick Hollander at the piano. She sings LIVE and it's electrifying. She also sings "The Ruins of Berlin" and "Lovely Illusions." Jean Arthur is also good in one of her last films. Millard Mitchell, Bill Murphy, Stanley Prager, and Gordon Jones co-star. A must!

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    • Anecdotes
      Billy Wilder said that John Lund "was the guy you got after you wrote the part for Cary Grant and Grant wasn't available."
    • Gaffes
      Though Phoebe, the American Congresswoman played by Jean Arthur is not married, the actress's real wedding ring is visible in many scenes especially closeups during the latter part of the film.
    • Citations

      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.

    • Connexions
      Edited into L'ami allemand (2006)
    • Bandes originales
      Black Market
      (uncredited)

      Written by Friedrich Hollaender

      Sung by Marlene Dietrich

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 20 août 1948 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Langues
      • English
      • German
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Foreign Affairs
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Berlin, Allemagne(Exterior)
    • société de production
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Budget
      • 1 500 000 $ US (estimation)
    • Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
      • 157 $ US
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    • Durée
      1 heure 56 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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