Die Frau meiner Träume

Die Frau meiner Träume (The Woman of My Dreams) was just what the doctor ordered in 1944, if the doctor in question was Goebbels and you were a happy member of Germany’s Thousand Year Reich. Light, frothy entertainment in the Hollywood style was what propaganda chief Goebbels had commanded Germany’s UFA studio to make and that’s what this is. It couldn’t have come at a better time. On the day it opened, 25 August 1944, the Allies were in the process of liberating Paris, the Warsaw Uprising was underway and the Germans were being rapidly pushed back out of the USSR. But never mind all that, here’s Marika Rökk to keep spirits high with … Read more