In 1933 Jean Weidt played L’apprenti sorcier, the slave of an authoritarian, violent master, who tried to give his broom life to improve his backbreaking working conditions. At the end of the Republic of Weimar, Germany witnessed artistic protest movements springing up. Artists oppressed by the regime of the Third Reich had no other choice than exile to claim their desire for a better life through expressionism.
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler.
To win the heart of a rather simple minded young man who doesn't seem to care much for women, a young foreign lady takes a job as the chambermaid to the man's sister in law.
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love.
