A LOVE IN GERMANY

From the early 1980’s, Artur Brauner withdrew from the increasingly unprofitable commercial film business to concentrate primarily on his cinema of remembrance. This was accompanied by an attempt to re-approach the Polish People’s Republic, this time obliquely, with the primarily West German and French led production of a work by one of their most significant filmmakers internationally. What resulted was top-notch European 80’s arthouse cinema: Wajda tells the story of a German-Polish love in the shadow of Nazi devastation such that one is able to grasp its consequences as extending, both in its deeper lines and further ramifications and implications, far beyond the respective (partial) interests of the two or three nations directly affected.