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Berlin Affair (The)
- Director: Liliana Cavani
- Writer: Liliana Cavani; Roberta Mazzoni
- Producer: Yoram Globus; Menahem Golan
CGiii Comment
What a croc of...!
Cavani deserved all the harsh criticism.
An inexplicably irresistible, fragile Japanese woman seduces everyone she meets - her gentility is a mask shrouding a manipulative little bitch that lies beneath...this contrived story lurches from the ridiculous to the mightily ridiculous.
The sex scenes are all fully-clothed and are as erotic as limp lettuce.
The acting is akin to that observed in the local am-dram club...fully deserving of the bashing it received...and, the ending is beyond a joke.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Gudrun Landgrebe as Louise von Hollendorf;
Kevin McNally as Heinz von Hollendorf;
Mio Takaki as Mitsuko Matsugae;
Hanns Zischler as Wolf von Hollendorf;
Massimo Girotti as Werner von Heiden;
Philippe Leroy as Herbert Gessler;
William Berger as The Professor;
Andrea Prodan as Joseph Benno;
Tomoko Tanaka as Ume;
Claudio Lorimer as Otto Bhuler;
Edward Farrelly as Bernard;
John Steiner as Oskar Engelhart;
Enrica Maria Scrivano as Lotte Engelhart;
Clara Algranti as Ilse;
Benedetta Fantoli as Concierge