The Broken Lullaby
1932 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt whenever he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Nancy Carroll · Phillips Holmes · Louise Carter · Lucien Littlefield · ZaSu Pitts
Soundtrack W. Franke Harling
Screenplay Reginald Berkeley · Samson Raphaelson · Ernest Vajda · Maurice Rostand
Cinematography Victor Milner
Original title The Broken Lullaby
Also known as The Man I Killed
8.0
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