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Dreaming Lips (1932)

Dreaming Lips poster
Original title
Der träumende Mund
Directed by
Paul Czinner
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is torn between her husband and a passionate affair with a violinist. Her decisions lead to tragedy.

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What happens

Dreaming Lips (German: Der träumende Mund) is a 1932 French-German drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Rudolf Forster and Anton Edthofer. The film is based on the play Mélo by Henri Bernstein. As was common at the time, the film was a co-production with a separate French-language version Mélo made. After Bergner and Czinner went into exile in Britain following the Nazi takeover, they remade the film in 1937. A further German remake was released in 1953, starring Maria Schell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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