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Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair (1948): Prostrate Germany As a Source of Laughs
by Andrew Hamilton
TO INFORMED viewers Jewish director Billy Wilder’s acclaimed comedy A Foreign Affair, released in the immediate aftermath of WWII, makes strange viewing today. It provides, however, a window into the strange psyche of the now dominant race.
Set in the ghastly ruins of postwar Berlin,…
