I don't want to spoil the plot by telling you too much, only I recommend this film to anyone who likes Billy Wilder (who was a good friend of Willi Forst) or Ernst Lubitsch (another wit that liked little surprises thru out his films.
SPOILERS:
"Every time Liane Haid appears in a German film she seems more charming than ever. Such was the case when this excellent actress played the starring role, with Willy Forst, in "The Song Is Ended." In fact, one of the main reasons against this piece being taken seriously by a well-pleased audience was the difficulty of believing that any live young man could have resisted her wiles as long as Ulrich Weidenau, her private secretary, did.
Forst is very good as the former army officer glad to get a job as secretary to the operetta singer whose feelings he has hurt a few nights before by abruptly in a cafe while she is singing a song about an imaginary officer. When the Baron, the Publisher and rich young Toenli, all more or less in love with Tilla, fail to run down the guilty wretch, she temperamentally dismisses them and hires a private secretary who of course, is Herr Weidenau himself. The great Tilla at once falls head over heels in love with her humble, but likely, employee, but he holds aloof in spite of his speedy infatuation until the last minute of the story.
The picture is filled with all sorts of amusing situations and has at least two songs that will linger in the spectator's memory for some time. They are sung very well. The supporting cast is capable and the photography and direction good." This film is available on DVD with switchable English subtitles, I recommend it!
SPOILERS:
"Every time Liane Haid appears in a German film she seems more charming than ever. Such was the case when this excellent actress played the starring role, with Willy Forst, in "The Song Is Ended." In fact, one of the main reasons against this piece being taken seriously by a well-pleased audience was the difficulty of believing that any live young man could have resisted her wiles as long as Ulrich Weidenau, her private secretary, did.
Forst is very good as the former army officer glad to get a job as secretary to the operetta singer whose feelings he has hurt a few nights before by abruptly in a cafe while she is singing a song about an imaginary officer. When the Baron, the Publisher and rich young Toenli, all more or less in love with Tilla, fail to run down the guilty wretch, she temperamentally dismisses them and hires a private secretary who of course, is Herr Weidenau himself. The great Tilla at once falls head over heels in love with her humble, but likely, employee, but he holds aloof in spite of his speedy infatuation until the last minute of the story.
The picture is filled with all sorts of amusing situations and has at least two songs that will linger in the spectator's memory for some time. They are sung very well. The supporting cast is capable and the photography and direction good." This film is available on DVD with switchable English subtitles, I recommend it!
