Pretty good for what it was - a docudrama, starting when Hansi Burg, with the British army, returns to Germany post WWII, altering between acted imagined scenes - since no one knows what exactly she and Hans Albers said to each other, beyond the fact that she removed his mistress du jour in the first five minutes and ended up returning to him - and interviews plus film excerpts covering their professional and personal lives until that point. The main perspective is that of Burg, and the movie makes some effort as to not let Albers off the hook easily (i.e. some cheeky wisecracks at the expense of party members aren't "resistance" as Burg points out in no uncertain terms), but there's the drawback that Ken Duken, while not bad, doesn't have Albers' charisma, and Picco von Groote, who is very good as Burg, doesn't have the chemistry with with him to sell the audience that these are two people who really cannot live without each other, despite all the (by the time of their reunion) gigantic obstacles. Though you do buy them early on as childhood friends (which they also were); also kudos to the movie for pointing out, both in the documentary and the acted parts, that Burg giving up her own acting career wasn't her becoming a housewife but her becoming Albers' manager and agent, which she was superb at; she negotiated his treaties and chose his projects throughout the Weimar Republic years (including FP1 antwortet nicht) and his becoming a star was very much due to her as well as his own talent.
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