A shy, awkward Japanese girl taking singing lessons in Vienna is courted by both an elderly composer who finds her inspiring and the composer's young nephew who is the orchestra conductor..
Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a very specific craving for 1930s European melodrama. If you want something snappy, keep walking. People who love stuffy, polite, "gentlemanly" dramas might find it charming, but anyone who prefers their movies to actually, you know, move will probably fall asleep by th...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Fritz Schulz
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a very specific craving for 1930s European melodrama. If you want something snappy, keep walking. People who love stuffy, polite, "gentlemanly" dramas might find it charming, but anyone who prefers their movies to actually, you know, move will probably fall asleep by the second act. It’s the kind of movie that feels like it was filmed inside a velvet-lined box. Everything is very proper, very quiet, and just a little bit suffocating. The Setup ..."
Norbert Garai, Heinz Goldberg, Richard Arvay
Austria
1935 · IMDb 5.8
