The Berlin Affair(Movie, 1985)

Name: The Berlin Affair
Genre: Drama
Released: 1985
Duration: T01:35:00
Rating: 2.6

Original title: "Leidenschaften - The Berlin Affair" (German/DE)

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| 1h 35min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

The Berlin Affair (Italian: Interno Berlinese; German: Leidenschaften) is a 1985 Italo-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. ()

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In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of disaster and tragedy, culminating with the inevitable intervention of the Gestapo. Despite the film's galloping sexual passions, The Berlin Affair is an exercise in aloofness, keeping the characters at arm's length-surprising, considering that the director was Liliana Cavani, auteur of the erotic classic The Night Porter (1974). The film was based on The Buddhist Cross, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, Italy

Plays in: Berlin & Potsdam

Made by: Italian International Film, Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: German (DE), Japanese (JA)

Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Lithuanian (LT), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/03/1985

Cast: Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Massimo Girotti, William Berger, John Steiner, Philippe Leroy, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler, Andrea Prodan

Director: Liliana Cavani

Producer: Italian International Film, Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan

Screenwriter: Liliana Cavani, Roberta Mazzoni

Executive Producer: Yoram Globus

Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni

Director of Photography: Dante Spinotti

Composer: Pino Donaggio

Production Designer: Luciano Ricceri

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Berlin Affair"

"Interno berlinese"

Keywords: lesbian relationship, lesbian, woman director

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