THE BERLIN AFFAIR
synopsis
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. Louise's husband Heinz soon finds out and tries to break up the union between his wife and Mitsuko only to eventually fall in love with Mitsuko also, while outside parties who include art professor Joseph Benno, Mitsuko's lover, and Heinz's cousin Wolf, a Gestapo officer, figure in which threatens to destroy the love triangle for good.
original title: | The Berlin Affair |
country: | Italy, Germany |
year: | 1985 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Liliana Cavani |
film run: | 118' |
release date: | IT 06/11/1985, DE 02/1986, ES 16/04/1986, NL 17/04/1986, FR 23/04/1986, PT 23/05/1986, BE 29/05/1986, FI 12/09/1986, SE 25/05/1997 |
screenplay: | Liliana Cavani, Roberta Mazzoni |
cast: | Kevin McNally, Hanns Zischler, Massimo Girotti, Philippe Leroy, William Berger, Andrea Prodan, Tomoko Tanaka, Claudio Lorimer, Edward Farrelly, John Steiner, Enrica Maria Scrivano, Clara Algranti |
cinematography by: | Dante Spinotti |
film editing: | Michael J. Duthie, Ruggero Mastroianni |
art director: | Luciano Ricceri |
costumes designer: | Alberto Verso |
music: | Pino Donaggio |
producer: | Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan |
associate producer: | John Thompson |