I just saw this tonight and wondered what others wrote - apparently not much since there are only a couple other reviews here. The actors all were excellent - so often in films, characters appear to be playing a part and this came off very genuine. This is a story of a heterosexual married couple, both teachers at the same school where the husband falls in love with a new male teacher, much younger. I don't know if it is reasonable that the men were caught kissing at the school, but that device is as reasonable as any to get the story out in the open. I had bigger problems with the fact they made out on a school trip and at the younger one's home BOTH times standing right in the window without the curtains drawn. Seems rather reckless behavior to me. I had terrible subtitles with mine so I missed the part at the end about the mother & kids leaving Germany for Hollywood and I didn't understand why after risking and losing everything, the husband moved into his own apartment rather than with the younger teacher who he was supposedly head over heels in love with. Lastly, I would say for a man to struggle with homosexual feelings from youth, I don't think as another has done, this can begin to compare with a heterosexual affair since societal attitudes force most men to not deal with these feelings.
Review of Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre
Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre
(2002 TV Movie)
A different story for sure - SPOILER
9 January 2012
Warning: Spoilers