Melody of the Heart (1929)

7.0/10 88 min Music Drama

Overview

A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.

Cast

Dita Parlo

Julia Balog

Willy Fritsch

János Garas

Anni Mewes

Anna Kovács

Ilka Grüning

Fräulein Czibulka

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