And not the least the heroine Hertha Feiler, probably the husband (Ruhmann) couldn't miss the opportunity to showcase her. And it helped since the movie was woven around her. The three men in her life popping in once in a while.
A simple story of a one night - but serious stand - broken due to misunderstanding / confusion in meeting place (will be repeated later in Love Affair/ An Affair to remember). But still they do unsuccessfully try to locate each other, but are handicapped - by the poverty of the girl, and rich but his business, which needed frequent and long duration travelling.
They meet again after a couple of year, due to the memento of the night (wood carved angel) in possession of the girl, but by then, both of them are engaged to other persons, and also, unknown to him, she is mother of his child. Things do get sorted out, and simply too, since there were no villains in the movie.
This has quite a bit of theme of "Man Woman And Child" at least skeletally, though the treatment and the ending were different (this being RomCom).
The best thing what I liked is - despite having all the ingredients of soap - it never fell to the depth. The possibilities were all removed from the screen, and only referred to, as having happened, and it didn't create a void in the story either.
The only thing missing here was - why didn't they show the baby even once ? It was quite natural, that it should be shown a few times. Only time it was shown was in a photograph for a second or so. It is even more surprising considering their son, Heinzpeter, was perfect age at that time, almost the age of the screen-baby. With the mom and dad around, managing the baby won't have been a trouble, especially when screen-mom was real mom. Mom and Dad probably decided on not debuting their son, who finally did it much later in an un-credited role in Feuerwerk (the only one, documentaries excepted). I have to watch it again to spot him - must not be too difficult.
Well, this is just what the doctor orders for me, simple story, with a bit of comedy and no tragedy. With an efficient direction and perfectly paced flow.
