A stinging satirical look at black marketeering in post WW II Berlin, A FOREIGN AFFAIR has Arthur heading a congressional investigation into the corruptive moral influence Germans are having on occupying GIs. Arthur arrives with a birthday cake for Lund, baked by one of his old girl
friends in the US. He immediately sells the cake for a mattress, which he presents to his German sweetie, Dietrich, an aristocrat turned torch singer in a Berlin bistro, the Lorelei. Arthur pretends to be a German girl and is picked up by some GIs and taken to the notorious club to hear and see
Dietrich vamp out some tunes, and she learns that Dietrich is Lund's mistress. She later turn...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
116 mins