The successful writer Erich Eckberg lives with his wife Sigrid and their three children, the twins Knut and Michael and their daughter Gabriele, on the stately country estate “Sophienlund”. On the sons' 21st birthday, the day they came of age, Eckberg reveals a great family secret to his children: Knut and Michael are not his wife's children. Her real mother - with him as fathe...
To Max Ophüls this was an assignment (from the UFA), a pure routine job. One hardly recognizes the later Ophüls in this film (shortly made before his masterpiece "Liebelei"), but still Ophüls made this routine job into a well-paced, stylish and sometimes extremely funny romantic comedy; he probably could not do it any other way. The script is fine with some hilarious dialogue. ...
Christian Kempenich is the Chief Clerk in the Town Council in a small town on the river Mosel in Germany. He goes to Cologne to attend a family baptism, and afterwards is lured to sample the wicked delights of the big city. He wakes up the next morning in a cheap hotel room with no memory of what happened, but there's a strange woman asleep in the bed with him. Horrified, he he...
