Frieda | |
---|---|
Directed by | Basil Dearden |
Screenplay by | Angus MacPhail and Ronald Millar |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Starring | David Farrar Glynis Johns Mai Zetterling Flora Robson |
Music by | John Greenwood |
Frieda is a British film, directed by Basil Dearden and produced by Michael Balcon. Frieda, (Mai Zetterling) is a German woman who helps an English airman, Robert, (David Farrar) to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in April 1945. It was released in 1947.
Frieda is a German woman who helps an Englishman to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. She loves him; he is only grateful to her. In a church between the Russian-German lines however, Robert marries her, so that she may obtain an English passport. Together they eventually arrive in his Oxfordshire home. Frieda meets his family - his mother, his small step-brother Tony, Judy (Glynis Johns), the attractive widow of Robert's brother , and Aunt Eleanor (Flora Robson), a figure in local poitics and vehemently anti-German.
At first the townspeople are bitterly hostile to Frieda and Robert is forced to give up his job as a schoolteacher. Gradually however, the ill will retreats, and she is accepted - though not by Eleanor. She is befriended by Judy, who, unknown to Robert, is now in love with him.