Ein Hauch von Amerika (2021)
Ein Hauch von Amerika
2021
In a small area of West Germany, the American military presence opened up a new world in the early 1950s and paved the way for individual freedom, freedom of movement and capitalism in Germany. In this time of upheaval, two friends are looking for their place and have to fight time and again with the 'old order', the conservative forces from politics, church and society. Confronted with the seductions of the new world, the two dissimilar women make an opposing development that puts their intimate friendship to a severe test ...
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In south-west Germany in 1951, the American military finds a new home in the town of Kaltenstein, which proves to be a blessing for the mayor and his daughter, but a curse for a farming family.
Freedom spreads throughout Kaltenstein; Marie starts working at the army base and finds herself falling for George, who deals with racist hostility from his peers; Erika takes advantage of her new liberation.
Trouble brews when the mayor's son Siegfried, who was thought lost during the war, unexpectedly returns and is ready to marry his fiancé Marie.
Prostitution and moral decay alarm the priest and the mayor's wife; Erika faces a difficult decision; Marie rejects George and plans to marry Siegfried.
Marie distances herself from Erika, choosing to be with George and go her own way; Erika deals with news from the doctor; Mayor Strumm's dark past comes to light.
Marie and George's friends on the base fight to prove his innocence, but Marie starts to have doubts; Siegfried and Erika take over their father's business when he's discredited.
In a small area of West Germany, the American military presence opened up a new world in the early 1950s and paved the way for individual freedom, freedom of movement and capitalism in Germany. In this time of upheaval, two friends are looking for their place and have to fight time and again with the 'old order', the conservative forces from politics, church and society. Confronted with the seductions of the new world, the two dissimilar women make an opposing development that puts their intimate friendship to a severe test ...
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