Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair was criticised when it was first released for it's humourous take on Nazi war guilt bombed-out Berlin and the post-war European black market. However Wilder has managed to create a very funny take on the bleak outlook of life in Europe after World War II. John Lund and Marlene Dietrich play a couple embarking on an affair and Jean Arthur is the American congresswoman sent to Berlin who while being initailly shocked by the levels of corruption surrounding her soon falls for Lund's charms much to Dietrich's annoyance.
A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty hears rumors that cafe singer Erika (Marlene Dietrich) former mistress of a wanted war criminal is ""protected"" by an American officer and enlists Captain John Pringle to help her find him...
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