Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman

Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman

2005 · 92 min · DE · 6.7 (27 votes)
Dir. Franziska Buch · Starring Kostja Ullmann, Marie Bäumer, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Rolf Kanies, Claudia Messner, Claudia Geisler-Bading
DramaRomance

A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.

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A quiet, aching exploration of an intense, unlikely connection. It feels tender and deeply felt, capturing the bittersweet pangs of first love against a backdrop of societal constraints.

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