Die fromme Lüge
80 mins
The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”
Hermann Braun
Cecil Lasko
Suse Graf
Colette
Philipp Lothar Mayring
Writer
Harald G. Petersson
Writer
H. von Puttkamer
Novel
Hadrian Maria Netto
Theatre Play
Franz Grothe
Music
Karl Hasselmann
Director of Photography
Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
Editor
Karl Böhm
Art Direction
Erich Czerwonski
Art Direction
Walter Rühland
Sound