Zwei in einer großen Stadt

In this romantic comedy set during World War two, a young soldier on furlough in Berlin falls in love with a Red Cross worker. This was one of the few Third Reich films to offer glimpses of everyday wartime life.

In "Two in a Big City" a Luftwaffe officer on leave in Berlin meets a German Red Cross worker. The film has much in common with von Collande's "Ein Schoner Tag" (1944), though in a somewhat lighter vein. Shot at the peak of Hitler's military success in the summer of 1941, "Zwei in einer großen Stadt" presents the "bright side" of Nazi Germany. Everyone is resolute, confident, smiling, and, occasionally, breaking into song. This isn't the way we like to think of the Nazi's, but the film clearly reflects how they preferred to think of themselves.