Schlußakkord (1936)

Directed by

Douglas Sirk

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to Germany after a long absence and becomes caught up in the lives of a wealthy family and a talented young musician. Secrets and emotions come to the surface as music plays a central role in the story.

melodramaticmusicalemotionally intensestylishsymbolicdramatictense

What happens

Schlußakkord (Final Accord or better Final Chord; sometimes anglicised Schlussakkord) is a German film melodrama of the Nazi period, the first melodrama directed by Detlef Sierck, who later had a career in Hollywood as Douglas Sirk and specialised in melodramas. It was made under contract for Universum Film AG (UFA), stars Lil Dagover and Willy Birgel and also features Maria von Tasnady, and premièred in 1936. It shows stylistic features later developed by Sierck/Sirk and makes symbolic and thematic use of music. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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