Broken lullaby / a Paramount picture ; Paramount presents an Ernst Lubitsch production ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch ; screen play by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda.
Publisher:
Kino Lorber Inc.,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Container of (work): Broken lullaby (Motion picture : 1932)
Notes:
Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Zasu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Lucien Littlefield, Tom Douglas, Frank Sheridan, George Bickel, Emma Dunn, Reginald Pasch. Title and credits from screen. "From the play 'The man I killed" by Maurice Rostand and the adaptation by Reginald Berkeley." Originally released as a motion picture in 1932. 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Special features: New audio commentary by film historian Joseph McBride.
Summary:
French violinist Paul Renard has returned from World War I triumphant but is haunted by the death of a German soldier at his hands. Determined to make amends, he travels to the dead man's hometown and meets his former fianceé Elsa, and his grieving father. Rather than reveal his true identity, Paul tells the two that he was a former friend of the deceased soldier. As Elsa and Paul draw closer and the family embraces him as one of their own, Paul's conscience is torn between revealing his past guilt and embracing a future he never knew possible.
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