Characters & Themes
The Affair (1995) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1995 · 105 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Paul Seed
- Starring
- Courtney B. Vance, Michael Shannon, Ciarán Hinds, Ned Beatty, Kerry Fox, Martin McDougall
During World War II in England, a Black soldier begins an affair with a white woman whose husband, also a soldier, is fighting overseas. Uncertain about her marriage, the woman discovers that her husband has been carrying on an affair with his secretary, intensifying the complications of her own secret relationship.
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