Devil's Mistress Page #2

That makes the Rhine so beautiful

The Rhine

SO:

beautiful!

Bravo! Very good!

Beautiful. Beautiful!

They engaged me.

Barcarole...

We start at 7:
37 in studio 4.

Mr. Frhlich?

Ah, Miss Baarov, at last!

It is an honor.

I've seen all your movies.

I'm looking forward to working with you.

So do I.

You look wonderful there.

But a little tame for a lover,

don't you think?

Ah, you've already met!

Our young actress is very talented

and extraordinarily observant.

A good choice.

Congratulations!

Thank you.

Lda is the best of all Czech actresses.

This will be her first German movie.

Lda, please get ready.

Shall we go?

Take two identical ones, okay?

Suddenly my girlhood dream came true.

I was in front of the camera

with Gustav Frhlich.

And action!

It was beautiful, wasn't it?

Giacinta,

aren't you afraid

it will never again be this beautiful?

No.

It will always be

increasingly beautiful.

Increasingly beautiful.

Yes.

I'm just a little tired, you know?

Cut.

We're doing this scene for the 5th time.

There's really no other way to tell you

this, Miss Baarov, but your accent...

Don't you think you're overreacting?

She plays an Italian. She can have

a small accent. Just let her talk.

It sounds unnatural.

But most charming.

If it doesn't bother you...

Once more from the top.

Thank you.

There's no need to thank me.

I have reasons of my own.

[So this was the man of my dreams: Gust].

I had come to take Berlin by storm,

and soon Gustav Frhlich,

film star and idol of all German women,

invited me to dinner.

That was my first triumph.

At the time everyone admired Frhlich.

It did me a lot of good

to be by his side.

Please.

I'm Gustl.

Lda.

Is everything to your satisfaction, Sir?

As always, Mr. Katz. As always.

But please tell me,

where did you find this wonderful Negro?

Her singing is absolutely wonderful.

Made in USA. New Orleans.

But I fear I'm going

to have to send her back soon.

Why?

Well, a Negro

in a Jew's establishment...

But what kind of Jew am I, Mr. Frhlich?

A paper one.

We live in strange times.

I wish you both a wonderful evening.

That's my wife... thinking about me.

She always does this, when I'm...

Alone with another woman?

My...

My... wife is an Hungarian Jew.

She doesn't feel safe... in Germany.

She's always trying

to talk me into coming to Budapest.

But what am I going to do in Budapest?

Dance... the Csrds?

I'd sooner have a... divorce.

Rilke... Rilke lived in Prague.

"She had no back-story whatsoever.

Uneventful the years passed by.

Suddenly it appeared in bright light,

Love, or whatever it was."

With Gustl I had

my first deeply-felt relationship.

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