Broken Lullaby

Urbane and charming Lubitsch gives up his sophisticated comedy style that became known as "the Lubitsch touch" for a deeply felt look at his native Germany after WW I, and the result is "the best talking picture that has yet been seen and heard," according to playwright Robert Sherwood. A somber, offbeat drama and a fierce antiwar document, BROKEN LULLABY tells the story of a young Frenchman who goes to Germany to seek out the family of a soldier he killed during the war and beg forgiveness. When he does find the man's kinfolk, they accept him as a friend. The film was Lubitsch's only dramatic sound film and surprised his international following of the time, which ...