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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.
Oct 16, 1994 · Broken Lullaby: Directed by Michael Kennedy. With Mel Harris, Rob Stewart, Oliver Tobias, Jennifer Dale. Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box.
Broken Lullaby: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter. French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
Suffering from a guilty conscience, French violinist Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) confesses to a priest (Frank Sheridan) that he killed a German soldier...
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Mar 7, 2022 · Though famed for his Golden Age comedies, Ernst Lubitsch also had a knack for the serious stuff. In 1932's antiwar film Broken Lullaby, he grapples with guilt, redemption, and post-traumatic stress disorder—then known as shell shock—in the post-World War I period.
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt.
After World War I, Frenchman Paul Renard is haunted by the memory of Walter Holderlin, a German soldier he killed in the heat of battle. Having read and signed Walter's last letter and memorized his home address, Paul goes to Germany to confess his deed to the soldier's family.
Often overlooked amongst director Ernst Lubitsch’s comedies and musicals, Broken Lullaby is a riveting and brilliant romantic drama from the pre-Code era, starring Lionel Barrymore (It’s a Wonderful Life), Nancy Carroll (The Kiss Before the Mirror), and Phillips Holmes (The Criminal Code).
Apr 28, 2022 · Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch. Publication date 1932 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Topics Cinema Language English Item Size 1148570034.
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Oct 11, 2010 · Set in the aftermath of World War I, the film tells the story of a young French soldier Paul Renaud (Phillips Holmes) tormented by guilt over his killing of a German soldier Walter Holderlin (Tom Douglas). Using the address on a letter he finds on Walter’s body, he travels to Germany to find the dead soldier’s family.
