To Robert, in private, he admits the truth of this accusation, and claims that Frieda had known and approved of his actions. In a pub, he is denounced as one of the guards at a concentration camp. However, she soon realises that he has remained a Nazi at heart, his wedding present to Frieda being a swastika on a chain. He had been captured and allowed to volunteer for the Polish Army. Thinking he had been killed, Frieda is initially overjoyed. Suddenly, an ex-German soldier appears-Frieda's brother Richard ( Albert Lieven). But Robert clings on to what they have established between them. But then they see a film dealing with the horror of Bergen-Belsen and Frieda fears their marriage will not survive its revelation of her countrymen's cruelty. As Robert settles into a new life, working with Frieda on a farm, he begins to lose his prisoner-of-war heaviness. Frieda is befriended by Judy, who, unknown to Robert, is now also in love with him.

Gradually, however, the ill will subsides, and she is accepted, except by Eleanor.

Frieda meets his family: his mother, his small stepbrother Tony, Judy ( Glynis Johns), the attractive widow of Robert's brother, and Aunt Eleanor ( Flora Robson), a figure in local politics and vehemently anti-German.Īt first, the townspeople are bitterly hostile to Frieda, and Robert is forced to give up his job as a schoolteacher. Together they eventually arrive in his Oxfordshire home. In a church between the Russian-German lines, however, Robert marries her, so that she can obtain a British passport. She loves him he is only grateful to her. Frieda has to deal with both anti-German sentiment in post-war Britain, and with her unrepentant Nazi brother.įrieda ( Mai Zetterling) is a German woman who helps English airman Robert ( David Farrar) to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. Following the war, the couple settle in Oxfordshire. He decides to marry her, though he does not actually love her. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jim Morahan and Michael Relph.ĭuring World War II, a German woman rescues an English prisoner-of-war.

Made by Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios, it is based on the 1946 play of the same title by Ronald Millar who co-wrote the screenplay with Angus MacPhail. Frieda is a 1947 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns and Mai Zetterling.

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