Die fromme Lüge

Die fromme Lüge

80 mins | Drama | March 25, 1938

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.”

Die fromme Lüge

80 mins | Drama | March 25, 1938

Die fromme Lüge
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.”
Producers Terra-Filmkunst
Original title Die fromme Lüge
Directors Nunzio Malasomma
Writers H. von Puttkamer, Hadrian Maria Netto, Philipp Lothar Mayring, Harald G. Petersson

Cast

Pola Negri

as Carmen Casini

Hermann Braun

as Cecil Lasko

Herbert Hübner

as Bartell

Harald Paulsen

as Smith

Josefine Dora

as Theres

Suse Graf

as Colette

Hans Leibelt

as Sam Milbrey

Jupp Hussels

as Rennbahnreporter

Walter Gross

as Rundfunkreporter

Leo Peukert

as Opernhausdirektor

Liselotte Schaak

as Krankenschwester