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Fassbinder muse Barbara Sukowa stars in THE INVENTION OF CURRIED SAUSAGE – adapted from the best-seller of the same name by Uwe Timm. In the final days of the second world war, Lena Brücker, now in her early 40s, falls in love with a young sailor who has deserted. She hides him in her apartment and shields him from the news of Germany’s defeat. Because she knows the end of the war will mean the end of their affair. It’s a role seemingly tailor-made for Sukowa and she carries the film, which, yes does also tell how Berlin’s famous Currywurst, or curried sausage, was invented.