Broken Lullaby Page #3

Synopsis: A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ernst Lubitsch
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Year:
1932
76 min
127 Views


What can I do for you?

Papa!

Oh, pardon me!

Mother!

Mother!

She was there.

Where?

I just came from the grave of your son.

From my son's grave?

I am Walter's mother.

Welcome to our home.

Let me look at you.

A Frenchman...

...putting flowers on my son's grave.

Thank you for the flowers.

You knew Walter?

Yes.

You met him in France?

Yes.

In Paris. And you didn't forget him.

I can't forget him.

God bless you.

Please forgive me,

for here I am in the house where he lived.

His father, his mother, his...

His fiance.

His fiance.

I came here to talk about him

and now, oh God,

it's so difficult...

You don't know what it means to us

to have you here.

It's just as if you'd brought

Walter back again.

Tell us about him, all about him.

-Yes, everything you know.

Everything you have done, please!

How did you meet him?

When did you see him last?

Yes, tell us all about

the last time you saw him.

When I saw him the last time...

He was happy?

Happy?

He was very happy!

It was in Paris?

Yes, Paris.

We went out together.

Two friends.

We went out together.

We had a great time.

Oh, a wonderful time!

What an evening!

You made them very happy.

Me, too.

I'm glad my coming was not a mistake.

Oh, no, no!

It was inspiration

as it only had been given to you by God.

And you made it feel alive again.

Auf Wiedersehen!

You... You like that dress?

Yes, Herr Bresslauer, I like it very much.

Well, you're wrong,

that dress is for a brunette.

Here is a dress for you.

Listen, I'll tell you a secret:

Remember, you must not

repeat this to a soul.

It's a French model.

It's really very pretty.

Made for you!

I haven't sold you a dress

and a long mile further I've never seen.

It's about time you get one

Let me tell you:
a young girl

should keep up mit the style.

It's bad to be left behind.

This dress is good for two years

because it's already two years ahead of the style

Come in and slip it on.

No thanks, I haven't any time today.

I'll tell you what I'll do:

seeing that's you, I make a special price.

Take it away for 2, 95, 50.

Some other time, Herr Bresslauer.

Did you really see it, Frau Stein?

With my own eyes, Frau Klein!

Good morning!

Good morning!

After you, Frulein Anna.

We're in no hurry, thank you.

Five lamb chops, please.

What do you say? Five?

Yes, five.

And tomorrow we shall want pig's trotters,

also for five.

Yes, Frulein Anna.

And if you think you'll get one word out of me

about that Frenchman, you're mistaken.

Not a word!

What Frenchman!

You know very well what Frenchman.

The one who's in love with Frulein Elsa.

He, in love?

He doesn't know it, but he is.

I'll be back in a minute.

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Samson Raphaelson

Samson Raphaelson (1894–1983) was a leading American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer. While working as an advertising executive in New York, he wrote a short story based on the early life of Al Jolson, called The Day of Atonement, which he then converted into a play, The Jazz Singer. This would become the first talking picture, with Jolson as its star. He then worked as a screenwriter with Ernst Lubitsch on sophisticated comedies like Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and Heaven Can Wait, and with Alfred Hitchcock on Suspicion. His short stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and other leading magazines, and he taught creative writing at the University of Illinois. more…

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