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Broken Lullaby (1932)

Broken Lullaby poster
Directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 44 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French soldier after World War I is haunted by killing a German soldier. He goes to the dead man's hometown and meets his family.

somberguilt-riddenreflectiveslow-pacedmelancholicgentlerestrainedheartfelt

What happens

Broken Lullaby (a.k.a. The Man I Killed) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda is based on the 1930 play L'homme que j'ai tué by Maurice Rostand and its 1931 English-language adaptation, The Man I Killed, by Reginald Berkeley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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