The Berlin Affair (1985)

Original title

Interno berlinese

Directed by

Liliana Cavani

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany, Italy

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

NC-17

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1938 Berlin, the wife of a rising Nazi diplomat falls in love with Mitsuko, the daughter of the Japanese ambassador. Her husband discovers the affair and tries to end it, but he too becomes infatuated with Mitsuko. Higher officials intervene as the love triangle threatens their positions.

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What happens

The Berlin Affair (Italian: Interno Berlinese; German: Leidenschaften) is a 1985 Italian-German film, directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally and Mio Takaki. Set in Berlin, 1938, it sees the wife of a rising Nazi diplomat fall in love with Mitsuko Matsugae, the daughter of the Japanese ambassador and an artist. Her husband finds out, and moves to break up the affair. However he soon falls in love with Mitsuko himself, leading to the intervention of officials higher in the system. The film is based upon the novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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