炙手可热的导演对偶然结识的英俊小生一见倾心，当他把男伴拉拔成银幕新星时，却也陷入万劫不复的深渊。影片重新诠释德国新浪潮巨匠赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德的《柏蒂娜的苦泪》，并以法斯宾德本人形象将主角性别由女转男。
除了找来《无耻混蛋》德尼·梅诺谢与影后伊莎贝尔·阿佳妮同台飙戏，更邀来原作传奇女星汉娜·许古拉现身客串，堪称是向法斯宾德献上了最大胆的致敬。

Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper (Armin Müller-Stahl) and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with someone who was not of the same high Aryan caste as herself. Depressing, yet politically relevant to Poland of the early 1980s, this film by acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda) is an effective and emotional statement on the nature of oppression.