Die Ehe des Herr Mississippi

• 1961
• 1 hr 30 mins

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This complex political satire by Kurt Hoffmann pits the supposedly religious Mr. Mississippi (O.E. Hasse) against the revolutionary Saint-Claude (Martin Held), enemies in love and politics. Anastasia (Johanna von Koczian) is the woman in the middle. Saint-Claude, a doctor and her lover, has given her the poison she uses to murder her husband. But Mr. Mississippi, a lawyer, forces Anastasia to marry him after he deports Saint-Claude and poisons his own wife. In the meantime, there is a revolution and counter-revolution going on that mirrors the personal lives of the protagonists, and it does not look like Saint-Claude is going to stay deported.