German version of French boulevard farce: A flirtatious Polish relative is brought to a country estate and complicates relations among a recuperating cuckolded banker, his wife, and her painter lover..
Is this thing worth the watch? Honestly, only if you have a weird itch for 1930s German boulevard comedy that hasn't been scratched in a while. If you enjoy watching people run through doorways at the wrong time, you’ll find some charm here. Everyone else? You’ll probably find the constant door-slamming and frantic whi...
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"Is this thing worth the watch? Honestly, only if you have a weird itch for 1930s German boulevard comedy that hasn't been scratched in a while. If you enjoy watching people run through doorways at the wrong time, you’ll find some charm here. Everyone else? You’ll probably find the constant door-slamming and frantic whispering pretty exhausting by the twenty-minute mark. 🙄 The whole thing feels like it’s barely holding onto the stage set. It’s based on a French play, and you can tell—every sing..."
Károly Nóti, Franz Schulz, Louis Verneuil
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