Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair was criticised when it was first released for it's humourous take on Nazi war guilt bombed-out Berlin and the post-war European black market. However Wilder has managed to create a very funny take on the bleak outlook of life in Europe after World War II. John Lund and Marlene Dietrich play a couple embarking on an affair and Jean Arthur is the American congresswoman sent to Berlin who while being initailly shocked by the levels of corruption surrounding her soon falls for Lund's charms much to Dietrich's annoyance.
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Classic romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lund. Captain John Pringle (Lund) is an American army captain who is having an affair with German singer Erika Von Schluetow (Dietrich). When Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) is sent to Germany on a fact-finding mission, John decides to clean up his act - or at least make it appear that way. Phoebe eventually falls for John, but Erika has other ideas.
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