Word: falsburg
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...clear when a priest, to whom he has confessed his deed as though it were a crime, reassures him by pointing out that he has merely done his duty. "Duty?" says the bewildered Frenchman, "why is it my duty to kill?" Eventually he goes to the German village of Falsburg-un-Baden and to an address which he had read on the last letter of the man he killed. There he finds the parents of the German soldier, but he cannot bring himself to tell them what he did to their son. Instead, he puts flowers...
...creative skill which used to show in the suave touches which Lubitsch put into his comedies comes out here in other directions?a shot of marching feet for which the camera was placed just behind a one-legged soldier; doorbells ringing in the Falsburg shops as the shopkeepers come out to watch a Frenchman going down the street; a gravedigger telling the German boy's fiancee (Nancy Carroll) that a Frenchman stopped to speak to him and gave...
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