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Aftermath of disappointment
There's a much more fascinating and complex film hidden away in a romantic melodrama set in post-war Germany, says MARIA DUARTE

The Aftermath (15)
Directed by James Kent

 

THIS Mills and Boon-style weepie opens in 1945, five months after the allied victory, with Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) heading to Hamburg to join her husband Lewis (Jason Clark), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the bombed out city.

 

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