''The African Woman'' (german: Die Rückkehr, it, L'africana, also known as ''The Woman from Africa'') is a 1990 West German-Italian-French
romance
Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to:
Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
* Romance languages, ...
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drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta (; born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. .
It was entered into the main competition at the
47th Venice International Film Festival.
Cast
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Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the ''commedia all'Italiana'', starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in '' Divorce Italian Style'' as Angela, the cousin and love i ...
as Anna
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Barbara Sukowa
Barbara Sukowa (; born 2 February 1950) is a German actress of screen and stage and singer. She has received three German Film Awards for Best Actress, three Bavarian Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Venice Film Festival ...
as Martha
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Sami Frey
Sami Frey (born Samuel Frei; 13 October 1937) is a French actor of Iranian Jewish descent. Among the films he starred in are '' En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud'' (1993), in which he portrays French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud, and '' Bande ...
as Victor
*
Jan Biczycki as Swinarski (as Jan Paul Biczycki)
*
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Alexandre Alexandrovich Mnouchkine (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Мну́шкин; 10 February 1908, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire – 3 April 1993, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a French film producer.
He moved to ...
as Andrej
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Jacques Sernas
Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.
Biography
He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, ...
as Dr. Wargnier
* Kadidia Diarra as Kind
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Pierre Deny as Journalist
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Bernard Tachl as Hausmeister
References
External links
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1990 films
1990 romantic drama films
West German films
German romantic drama films
French romantic drama films
Italian romantic drama films
Films directed by Margarethe von Trotta
1990s German-language films
1990s French films
1990s German films
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