A Foreign Affair

1948
Approved
1h 56m

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7,3/10

8,8 k

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Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur, and John Lund in A Foreign Affair (1948)

Liretrailer1 min 01 s

2 vidéos

31 photos

Satire Comedy Drama Romance

Dans Berlin occupée, un capitaine de l'armée est déchiré entre une chanteuse de cabaret au passé nazi et une femme membre du Congrès américain qui enquête sur celle-ci.Dans Berlin occupée, un capitaine de l'armée est déchiré entre une chanteuse de cabaret au passé nazi et une femme membre du Congrès américain qui enquête sur celle-ci.Dans Berlin occupée, un capitaine de l'armée est déchiré entre une chanteuse de cabaret au passé nazi et une femme membre du Congrès américain qui enquête sur celle-ci.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,3/10

8,8 k

MA NOTE

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Nommé pour 2 oscars
- 3 nominations au total

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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Commentaire en vedette

10/10

Brilliant! As relevant today as in 1948.

This is one of those comedies that will always exist in the stratosphere of wit, intelligence and truth. It pulls no punches about politics, greed, hypocrisy & opportunism and treats its audience like grown-ups. It is as applicable to today's congress and the situation in Iraq as it was to post-WWII Germany (to which today's politicians still make frequent comparisons). It also was the first film to unflinchingly capture the effects of the WWII devastation of Berlin.

And what a cast! Jean Arthur, surely one of the greatest of all Hollywood comediennes, Marlene Dietrich in a part to match her Lola Lola in Blue Angel, John Lund a great under-utilized actor with the wit and ruggedness of Clark Gable and Millard Mitchell, one of those character actors whose mold was sadly broken decades ago.

In my book this film ranks with Double Indemnity as the best work of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.

Great songs by the legendary Frederick Hollander who actually appears here as Dietrich's accompanist.