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The Final Chord

Original title: Schlußakkord
  • 19361936
  • 1h 40m
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6.6/10
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Willy Birgel and Lil Dagover in The Final Chord (1936)
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A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hann... Read allA young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her chi... Read allA young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
204
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    • Douglas Sirk
    • Kurt Heuser(screenplay)
    • Douglas Sirk(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Willy Birgel
    • Lil Dagover
    • Mária Tasnádi Fekete
    • Douglas Sirk
    • Kurt Heuser(screenplay)
    • Douglas Sirk(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Willy Birgel
    • Lil Dagover
    • Mária Tasnádi Fekete
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    • 2User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Willy Birgel
    Willy Birgel
    • Garvenberg, Generalmusikdirektor
    Lil Dagover
    Lil Dagover
    • Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
    Mária Tasnádi Fekete
    Mária Tasnádi Fekete
    • Hanna Müller
    • (as Maria von Tasnady)
    Maria Koppenhöfer
    Maria Koppenhöfer
    • Frau Freese, Wirtschafterin
    Theodor Loos
    Theodor Loos
    • Professor Obereit
    Peter Bosse
    Peter Bosse
    • Der kleine Peter
    Albert Lippert
    • Gregor Carl-Otto
    Kurt Meisel
    Kurt Meisel
    • Baron Salviany
    Hella Graf
    • Frau Czerwonska
    Erich Ponto
    Erich Ponto
    • Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts
    Paul Otto
    • Staatsanwalt
    Alexander Engel
    • Mr. Smith
    Walter Werner
    • Dr. Smedley
    Eva Tinschmann
    Eva Tinschmann
    • Oberschwester
    Erna Berger
    Erna Berger
    • Soprano
    Luise Willer
    • Alto
    Rudolf Watzke
    • Baritone
    Helmut Melchert
    • Bass
      • Douglas Sirk
      • Kurt Heuser(screenplay)
      • Douglas Sirk(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Liselotte Köster's debut.
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Blue Fox (1938)
    • Soundtracks
      Aus Deinen Augen strahlt mir das Glück
      Lyrics by Rudi Keller

      Music by Kurt Schröder

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    7/10
    Has anybody seen my boy ? (no room for the mom).
    "Schlußakkord" was the movie preceding "La Habanera" when Douglas Sirk was still Detlef Sierck and it is par excellence the movie which predates his great melodramas of the fifties.Not that the subject was very new:A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria Von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption ;when she comes back to her native land ,her son is now living in a rich family ,the man is a conductor and his wife ,a frustrated woman ,plays around until she gets this child she longed for;the biological mother takes a job as the brat's governess but of course the posh woman abetted by her former nanny ,a sinister-looking matron Rebecca's Mrs Danvers style , comes to hate her and dismiss her.Those who like stuff such as "the old maid" or "to each his own" or " a stolen life" should have a wonderful time watching this work.

    There are sequences which predate Sierck's future works: a drunken guy wearing a carnival mask entering the heroine 's room at a dramatic moment makes one think of this skeleton bursting into an apartment in "tanished angels" (1957);the trial predates that of "written on the wind"(1956) with its new developments;and the final is almost as pompous as the ending of "imitation of life" (1959).

    The shows are omnipresent:concerts (Beethoven's 9th symphony which cheers up the heroin far away from her land;pretty soon Sierck would have to leave it too) ,stage dramas ,heavenly choirs -the camera shows a statue of the Virgin babe in arms before filming the mother and child reunion;even more remarkable is the brat's little "show" : telling the story of "SnowWhite and the six dwarfs" -because a dwarf is missing- becomes a "tale in the tale", for as the young princess bites into the poisoned apple,his true mom is about to have a bad time.
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      • September 9, 1936 (United States)
      • Germany
      • German
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      • Berliner Philharmonie, Bernburger Strasse, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
    • Production company
      • Universum Film (UFA)
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
      • Black and White

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