Berlin screening of Wilder satire reopens 60 year-old controversy

By 2005-02-21T04:00:00

BillyWilder's 1947 romantic comedy A Foreign Affair, which screened in Berlinas the closing night attraction in the Selling Democracy series, may seemcharming to many - but it re-appears in Berlin with a legacy of controversythat saw the film banned in Germany for years after the war.

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