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La Habanera (1937)

La Habanera poster
Directed by
Douglas Sirk
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
0
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Swedish woman travels to Puerto Rico and marries a wealthy landowner. She becomes trapped in a stifling marriage and longs for her homeland.

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What happens

La Habanera is a 1937 German romantic melodrama feature film directed by Detlef Sierck (later known as Douglas Sirk). Zarah Leander, who was signed by UFA in the previous year, stars in the lead role of Astrée Sternhjelm and also performs its title song, "La Habanera". Like many of her films of this era, it proved an enormous box office success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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