Lubitsch, who was it? Who is it?
A German, who was also Austrian jew like Billy Wilder, who made his fortune in Los Angeles (it seems he was invited to America by Mary Pickford, in '22) and was also appreciated by Wilder ( cf. post below).
Here, of all films loufoques who remember him (and there are many), I choose not to talk about any of them, but its the only dramatic film (I saw last night on DVD ) Broken Lullaby / The Man I Killed (1932, L'homme que j'ai your / The man I killed ).
I propose the only piece of the film available on YouTube, where the view is clear that the director is made of wars (though the first stages and the Second World War):
The war is over a year. Good or bad, life goes on for those who survived. But Paul, a young Parisian musician (Philip Holmes) is unable to find peace: he killed one man, an unarmed German soldier in the trenches, while he was writing a letter to his girlfriend Elsa sull'insensatezza the war.
prey to remorse which faith fails to remedy, Paul finally decided to go to Germany and to apologize to the parents (Lionel Barrymore in the role of a German father, Doktor Holderlin). Needless to say, it succeeds and who will fall in love - spare - Elsa (Nancy Carroll).
Paul slowly takes the place of the young soldier in the hearts of parents and the girl.
But conscience gives him no respite ...
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PS I think it means notes broken Broken Lullaby (Paul and the young violinist killed, pianist Elsa. None of three - the second for obvious reasons - longer able to play the slightest piece of music: The music has gone away, screaming to her confessor Paul).
Posted by Diana Artemis in another blog in 2008
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