Directed by:
Billy WilderCinematography:
Charles LangComposer:
Friedrich HollaenderCast:
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Damian O'Flynn, Frank Fenton, Gordon Jones, Bobby Watson, Edward Van Sloan, Friedrich Hollaender, Millard Mitchell (more)Plots(1)
John Lund is an American army captain carrying on a casual affair with Berlin songstress Marlene Dietrich, who accepts Lund's attentions so long as there are contraband cigarettes and nylons added to the bargain. Iowa congresswoman Jean Arthur is sent as part of an American fact-finding delegation to Berlin, and Lund is compelled to clean up his act--or at least pretend to. Despite her initial shock at the corruption all around her, straitlaced Arthur eventually falls for Lund, but Dietrich has been at this game a lot longer. (official distributor synopsis)
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The goddess Marlene and the musical genius Friedrich Hollaender have hardly left each other’s side since The Blue Angel, yet the highlights of their collaboration can be found in these two films. They came a long way in 18 years. Only the elite made it from the splendor of Weimar cinema to post-war Hollywood, so let's enjoy their reign and let them be guided by another of their experienced colleagues in Billy Wilder. On another level, one can appreciate the realistic exteriors of Berlin in the summer of 1947 and an entire series of great jokes. From the boy who constantly has the compulsive need to draw swastikas everywhere and always, to all those sentences embellished many times with the sonorous word "von." "Looks like you've got a date with five million von bricks." - "Has it stopped raining? If there are any puddles, you'll carry me, won't you, boys?"
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