Fraulein - Ein deutsches Melodram (1986)
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Angelica Domröse, Péter Franke, Lou Castel, Mareile Geisler
In postwar Germany, a film projectionist tries to balance her desires and family life when her husband, long presumed dead, returns from Russia.
The story
In the postwar period, Johanna, a German woman of the rubble, works as a film projectionist and tries to take advantage of the country’s renewed economic growth while balancing her desires and family life. Her husband, a prisoner of war presumed dead, returns from Russia, complicating her marriage. Johanna also has an extramarital relationship with a French soldier serving in the occupying forces, placing her private desires amid the unsettled circumstances of postwar life.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the postwar period, Johanna, a German woman of the rubble who has become a film projectionist, tries to take advantage of the country’s renewed economic growth while balancing her desires and family life, including her marriage to her husband, a prisoner of war presumed dead who returns from Russia. She has an extramarital relationship with a French soldier in the occupying forces.
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