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Willi Forst's Mazurka, the 1935 Willi Forst German older-man-seduces-young-girl-and-years-later-she-kills-him melodrama (about a pretty teen music student, who is seduced by a famous concert pianist, but he makes the mistake of taking her to a club where an earlier conquest of his has now been reduced to being a sleazy lounge singer, and when the older woman sees him with a would-be new conquest, she shoots and kills him and is put on trial for murder!) starring Pola Negri (this Polish born actress had been a major star in the 1920s, but when her career began winding down in the late 1930s, she went to Europe and made this movie, plus four others, before basically retiring), Albrecht Schoenhals, Ingeborg Theek, Paul Hartmann, and Franziska Kinz. Note that this is a fascinating movie! It was inspired by a real life 1930 murder case in Europe. In 1931, it was adapted into the American movie, "Millie", starring Helen Twelvetrees, but even in that pre-Code time, the details of the case had to be altered. In 1935, producers Arnold Pressburger and Gregor Rabinovitch decided to make this German version, and they hired Pola Negri to come over from the U.S., where her career was winding down. The movie ran into trouble, probably partially because Pressburger and Rabinovitch were "not Aryan" (they would soon both leave Germany), and partially because it was rumored that Negri had had an affair with Hitler, and Goebbels was afraid her making a movie in Germany could cause a scandal, but the movie WAS made, and everyone agreed it was excellent. Warner Bros. liked the movie so much that they bought the rights to it, intending to have Bette Davis star in the American version of it, but it ended up starring Kay Francis, and it was called "Confession", and released in 1937. It was almost a scene-by-scene remake of this original German version, and Warner Bros. bought the American rights to the movie and did not allow it to be shown in the U.S., for fear that it would hurt "Confession". To this day, it can only be seen in unsubtitled prints, and one hopes that it will be properly released to American audiences at some point in the near future (and of course, it would be great to have a modern remake of it)!
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