The 1940 movie The Man I Married, which starred Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan and Anna Sten, was fiction, but it was very similar to the 1991 docudrama movie Not Without My Daughter, which starred Sally Field, except the trip was to Nazi Germany in 1938 instead of Islamic Iran in 1984.
The couple, a successful American art critic and her German husband, travel to Germany with their son on a business-vacation. Unfortunately, the husband is gradually enraptured by what Germany has become under the Nazis and by a young beautiful German Nazi woman. He eventually confesses to his American wife that he has joined the Nazi Party and he will stay in Germany and marry the Nazi woman. He does concede that she can leave for the USA, but their young son must stay with him.
The climax is very surprising and it makes this 77-minute movie well worth watching. Incidentally, this movie lost money; Twentieth Century Fox withdrew it after a few showings when Germany objected to it. Not Without My Daughter was also unsuccessful at the box office.
The DVD of The Man I Married is available from Amazon.
This movie can also be seen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izyrQMHBDWE
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