A review by gilmoreguide
City of Women by David R. Gillham

3.0

For Sigrid Schröder her life in 1943 Berlin is one of grinding tedium, working days as a stenographer and spending nights in a small apartment with her mother-in-law and withdrawn husband. Her only escape is a movie theater where she can sit quietly in the balcony with her own thoughts. There she meets Egon, a mysterious man with whom she embarks on a dangerous affair, for Egon is a Jew. For months they meet in a small shabby apartment and he provides the only source of life in her tedious existence. But even as their physical relationship grows stronger, he remains secretive about his life and past. Then with the same stealth that he slipped into her life, he is gone. So too is her husband who is sent to the Eastern Front.

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