A Strange Love (1984)

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Country: East Germany, West Germany
Genres: Drama
Release: 1984-09-21
Director: Lothar Warneke
Writers: Erika Richter , Lothar Warneke , Wolfram Witt
Language: German
Stars: Christine Schorn , Jörg Gudzuhn , Mike Gregor , Carsten Falke , Franz Viehmann , Peter Sodann , Rolf Ludwig , Annemone Haase , Ulrich Anschütz , Petra Keil
Runtime: 104 min
Awards: 3 wins
AKA: Eine sonderbare Liebe , Arithmetik der Liebe , A Strange Love , Szczególna milosc (Poland) , 不思議な恋 (Japan)
Plot: After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. They meet each other later and resolve to enter into a strictly intellectual relationship. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her relationship with a married colleague. Suddenly, Sibylle quits her job at the company's staff canteen and delves into her new self-appointed task with fiery fervor: to pep up Harald's family life, turning his house, garden, etc. inside out. Harald, a quiet man used to peace and his own habits, starts to flee from her on a daily basis. Without love, she figures, the relationship will not work out. But it does not take long for the pair to miss each other's presence.
IMDB:tt0088152