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Director
  
Rainer Simon

Awards
  
Golden Bear

Country
  
East Germany

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Genre
  
War film

Duration
  

Language
  
German

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Release date
  
31 January 1985 (East Germany) February, 1985 (BIFF)

Writer
  
Leonhard Frank (novel), Rainer Simon

Cast
  
Kathrin Waligura
(Anna),
Joachim Lätsch
(Karl),
Peter Zimmermann
(Richard),
Katrin Knappe
(Marie),
Ulrich Mühe
(Revolutionär)

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The Woman and the Stranger (German: Die Frau und der Fremde) is a 1985 East German film directed by Rainer Simon. It is based on Leonhard Frank's novella "Karl und Anna" and tells the story of two friends in a POW camp during World War I. One of them escapes and forms a relationship with the other man's wife. After the war her husband returns. The film was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear.

It is a remake of Homecoming (1928).

Cast

  • Joachim Lätsch as Karl
  • Peter Zimmermann as Richard
  • Kathrin Waligura as Anna
  • Christine Schorn as Trude
  • Siegfried Höchst as Horst
  • Hans-Uwe Bauer as Verwirrter Soldat
  • Katrin Knappe as Marie
  • Ulrich Mühe as Revolutionär
  • Herbert Sand as Kriegsinvalide
  • Daniel Fries as Trudes kleiner Sohn
  • Roman-Eckhard Galonska as Nachbar
  • Mirko Haninger as Soldat am Fenster
  • Reiner Heise as Deutscher Gefangener
  • Rita Hirschberger as Elfie

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