''A country that had Auschwitz and caused so much horror and then, a few years later, behaves in this manner because I was naked on screen is utterly absurd,'' actor-singer Hildegard Knef said of the controversy that engulfed her because of her role of the prostitute Marina in THE SINNER (1951). ''I had the scandal, the producers got the money.''
The Goethe-Institut Toronto is showing Willi Forst's daring post-war film one night only as part of our series Déjà Revue at the Revue Cinema on August 25 -- introduced via video by anthropologist Simone Paget, Canada-wide sex and relationship columnist:
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