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* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy: Erich is conducting Beethoven's Ninth, and the "Ode to Joy" section is shown in the film in its entirety. This does a couple of things. First, Hanna is shown listening to the concert on the radio with a look of rapture on her face, while Charlotte is at home admitting to the maid that she is "not musical", suggesting that Hanna is a better match for Erich than his own wife. Second, this Nazi movie starts off with a scene in the United States where a band is playing jazz at a raucous concert, so the use of "Ode to Joy" contrasts pure German culture with decadent America.
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* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy: Erich is conducting Beethoven's Ninth, and the "Ode to Joy" section is shown in the film in its entirety. This does a couple of things. First, Hanna is shown listening to the concert on the radio with a look of rapture on her face, while Charlotte is at home admitting to the maid that she is "not musical", suggesting that Hanna is a better match for Erich than his own wife. Second, this Nazi movie starts off with a scene in the United States where a band is playing jazz at a raucous concert, so the use of "Ode to Joy" contrasts pure German culture with decadent America.
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** Carl-Otto's slimy, AmbiguouslyGay friend, the one who approaches Charlotte with the blackmail demand, also wears such a glass.
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** Carl-Otto's slimy, AmbiguouslyGay friend, friend the Baron, the one who approaches Charlotte with the blackmail demand, also wears such a glass.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Charlotte, who knows there's no way she can escape Carl-Otto's blackmail, knowingly drinks the glass that Hanna has unknowingly spiked with a fatal dose of morphine.
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* NoSwastikas: There were exceptions but for the most part Nazi cinema avoided showing a lot of Third Reich iconography, as Goebbels believed that light escapist fare was better at keeping the population quiescent. In this film set in 1936 Berlin no swastikas are seen anywhere, neither on flags nor on uniforms, not even in a courtroom. The only Nazi symbol in the movie is a Nazi eagle over a gate at the airport, and that is shot from a distance.
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* CatapultNightmare: Hanna has a dream about giving the drink to Charlotte. It ends with her bolting upright in bed catapult nightmare style and screaming "No! I didn't do it!" (What happened was that she unknowingly put ten drops of sedative in a glass of water that Freese the maid had already put ten drops in.)
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* SittingSexyOnAPiano: There's a woman ''dancing'' on a piano, in the sleazy nightclub from where Carl-Otto calls Charlotte.
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* {{Astrologer}}: Charlotte's lover, Gregor, is an astrologer. He is introduced giving a lecture to some society ladies where he says that astrology is not magic or mysticism but is totally legit science. He's an obvious con artist.
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* {{Astrologer}}: Charlotte's lover, Gregor, Carl-Otto, is an astrologer. He is introduced giving a lecture to some society ladies where he says that astrology is not magic or mysticism but is totally legit science. He's an obvious con artist.artist.
* {{Blackmail}}: Carl-Otto strong-arms Charlotte into giving him some money so he can leave the country. That doesn't stop them from having sex soon after, but later he is even more direct, sending one of his weaselly friends to tell Charlotte that if she doesn't cough up a lot more money, Carl-Otto will write a book about their affair.
* {{Blackmail}}: Carl-Otto strong-arms Charlotte into giving him some money so he can leave the country. That doesn't stop them from having sex soon after, but later he is even more direct, sending one of his weaselly friends to tell Charlotte that if she doesn't cough up a lot more money, Carl-Otto will write a book about their affair.
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* HighClassGlass: Gregor sports one. In his case, it's obviously part of his act, an effort to project an air of class when he's actually a sleazy con man.
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* HighClassGlass: Gregor Carl-Otto sports one. In his case, it's obviously part of his act, an effort to project an air of class when he's actually a sleazy con man.man.
** Carl-Otto's slimy, AmbiguouslyGay friend, the one who approaches Charlotte with the blackmail demand, also wears such a glass.
** Carl-Otto's slimy, AmbiguouslyGay friend, the one who approaches Charlotte with the blackmail demand, also wears such a glass.
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** Gregor picks Charlotte up into his arms. Cut to a male dancer doing the same with a female at the opera that Erich is conducting.
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* POVCam: The camera spins right before Charlotte faints.
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* MatchCut: From Peter riding on his own little merry-go-round in his room, to dancing figurines spinning on top of a record player.
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** Gregor picks Charlotte up into his arms. Cut to a male dancer doing the same with a female at the opera that Erich is conducting.
** From Peter riding on his own little merry-go-round in his room, to dancing figurines spinning on top of a record
** Gregor picks Charlotte up into his arms. Cut to a male dancer doing the same with a female at the opera that Erich is conducting.
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* MatchCut: From Peter riding on his own little merry-go-round in his room, to dancing figurines spinning on top of a record player.
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Lil Dagover, who plays Charlotte, was the female lead in ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari''.
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* HighClassGlass: Gregor sports one. In his case, it's obviously part of his act, an effort to project an air of class when he's actually a sleazy con man.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Charlotte accuses Erich of this, saying that his life is all music and he never pays attention to her.
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* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy: Erich is conducting Beethoven's Ninth, and the "Ode to Joy" section is shown in the film in its entirety. This does a couple of things. First, Hanna is shown listening to the concert on the radio with a look of rapture on her face, while Charlotte is at home admitting to the maid that she is "not musical".musical", suggesting that Hanna is a better match for Erich than his own wife. Second, this Nazi movie starts off with a scene in the United States where a band is playing jazz at a raucous concert, so the use of "Ode to Joy" contrasts pure German culture with decadent America.
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* MarryTheNanny: Erich falls in love with Hanna, who has gotten hired as nanny to what is actually her own son. After Hanna is cleared of Charlotte's murder, the film ends with her and Erich getting engaged.
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* LoveDodecahedron: There's Charlotte carrying on an affair while also insisting that she loves her husband and would never leave him, while the husband winds up falling in love with the nanny.
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* {{Melodrama}}: In later years Sirk would call this his first melodrama, a film thematically similar to the glossy melodramas he made in Hollywood after World War II. This film certainly is a melodrama, with a noble, tragic widow, her apple-cheeked orphan son, the conductor that falls in love with her, his scheming, cheating wife, drug addiction, a murder trial...
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The film opens in New York, with the suicide of a German national named Mueller. Mueller's wife Hanna had hastily left the country with her husband because he was about to be arrested for embezzlement. Worse, they had to leave their little boy Peter behind, and he is now in an orphanage. With no more reason to stay in America, Hanna goes back to Germany to reclaim her son.
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The film opens in New York, with the suicide of a German national named Christian Mueller. Mueller's wife Hanna had hastily left the country with her husband because he was about to be arrested for embezzlement. Worse, they had to leave their little boy Peter behind, and he is now in an orphanage. With no more reason to stay in America, Hanna goes back to Germany to reclaim her son.
* {{Astrologer}}: Charlotte's lover, Gregor, is an astrologer. He is introduced giving a lecture to some society ladies where he says that astrology is not magic or mysticism but is totally legit science. He's an obvious con artist.
* DownerBeginning: Mueller kills himself (in fact, already has killed himself as the film opens), leaving his wife Hanna alone and grieving in a foreign country.
* DownerBeginning: Mueller kills himself (in fact, already has killed himself as the film opens), leaving his wife Hanna alone and grieving in a foreign country.
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* OrphanageOfLove: That one nurse is kind of bitchy, but overall, the orphanage where little Peter is staying has a kind and well-intentioned staff, led by the honorable Dr. Oberheit.
* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy: Erich is conducting Beethoven's Ninth, and the "Ode to Joy" section is shown in the film in its entirety. This does a couple of things. First, Hanna is shown listening to the concert on the radio with a look of rapture on her face, while Charlotte is at home admitting to the maid that she is "not musical". Second, this Nazi movie starts off with a scene in the United States where a band is playing jazz at a raucous concert, so the use of "Ode to Joy" contrasts pure German culture with decadentAmerica.America.
* TranslationConvention: It's a little bit weird when a New York cop, speaking in German, asks Hanna if she's from Germany, and Hanna answers yes, in German.
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''Schlussakkord'' ("Final Chord") is a 1936 film from Germany (so, yep, UsefulNotes/NaziGermany) directed by Detlef Sierck. Soon after Sierck would emigrate to America and anglicize his name to Creator/DouglasSirk.
The film opens in New York, with the suicide of a German national named Mueller. Mueller's wife Hanna had hastily left the country with her husband because he was about to be arrested for embezzlement. Worse, they had to leave their little boy Peter behind, and he is now in an orphanage. With no more reason to stay in America, Hanna goes back to Germany to reclaim her son.
Cut to Erich Garvenberg, a well-known German orchestra conductor. Erich thinks he is happily married, but his wife Charlotte is actually cheating on him. Erich happens to know the doctor at the orphanage where Peter is an inmate. Erich adopts Peter, just as Hanna returns to Germany for her son.
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* DramaticDrop: The drunk stumbling through Central Park tries to rouse a man slumped on a bench. When the drunk figures out that Mueller is dead, his cigarette slips from his mouth and falls, before he runs off screaming for help.
* LegFocus: The very first shot of the movie is a closeup of the legs of a line of American chorus girls, as they kick in line at a New Year's party.
* NewYearHasCome: The story starts as the New Year is coming in. A drunk stumbles out of a New Year's Eve party and finds Mueller dead in the park, having shot himself.
* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy: Erich is conducting Beethoven's Ninth, and the "Ode to Joy" section is shown in the film in its entirety. This does a couple of things. First, Hanna is shown listening to the concert on the radio with a look of rapture on her face, while Charlotte is at home admitting to the maid that she is "not musical". Second, this Nazi movie starts off with a scene in the United States where a band is playing jazz at a raucous concert, so the use of "Ode to Joy" contrasts pure German culture with decadent America.
The film opens in New York, with the suicide of a German national named Mueller. Mueller's wife Hanna had hastily left the country with her husband because he was about to be arrested for embezzlement. Worse, they had to leave their little boy Peter behind, and he is now in an orphanage. With no more reason to stay in America, Hanna goes back to Germany to reclaim her son.
Cut to Erich Garvenberg, a well-known German orchestra conductor. Erich thinks he is happily married, but his wife Charlotte is actually cheating on him. Erich happens to know the doctor at the orphanage where Peter is an inmate. Erich adopts Peter, just as Hanna returns to Germany for her son.
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* DramaticDrop: The drunk stumbling through Central Park tries to rouse a man slumped on a bench. When the drunk figures out that Mueller is dead, his cigarette slips from his mouth and falls, before he runs off screaming for help.
* LegFocus: The very first shot of the movie is a closeup of the legs of a line of American chorus girls, as they kick in line at a New Year's party.
* NewYearHasCome: The story starts as the New Year is coming in. A drunk stumbles out of a New Year's Eve party and finds Mueller dead in the park, having shot himself.
* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy: Erich is conducting Beethoven's Ninth, and the "Ode to Joy" section is shown in the film in its entirety. This does a couple of things. First, Hanna is shown listening to the concert on the radio with a look of rapture on her face, while Charlotte is at home admitting to the maid that she is "not musical". Second, this Nazi movie starts off with a scene in the United States where a band is playing jazz at a raucous concert, so the use of "Ode to Joy" contrasts pure German culture with decadent America.
