Everything in the films is over the top. The atmosphere is morbid, the colours seem unreal, the people are extremely rich, work are doing the others, costumes and set are perfect. Kristina Söderbaum is perhaps not the perfect cast for one of the leading roles, but her acting is fine. All elements combined add up to an incredible, sort of surrealistic work, set in a time and in an era that never existed. In another place and in another time, it would be very easy to rate this film as masterpiece. But the directors morals are questionable as we know from his other films. It is disturbing to see this perfect world. Knowing that while the film was made at a time when millions died a horrible death. The film comes over as the sound track and moving picture gallery to the death of the Third Reich..
