Melusine (1944)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1944 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 31m

Overview

Nora and Stefan fall in love with one another after an accident takes place, but then end up losing sight of one another later on. Stefan ends up saving the life of young Christine and becomes her fiancée. Christine, however, is Nora’s daughter (can’t see where this is heading, huh?). When Christine finds out that mom and her hubby-to-be had a rather intimate history, she takes a boat ride on a stormy lake. But the prophecy of disaster associated with the bronze figure “Melusine” does not come to pass: Stefan looks for Christine, finds her in one piece and stays with her. Nora, for her part, decides incest might be a bad thing and gives up Stefan forever to go back to the man she divorced (hey, way to feel wanted!). For some reason, the Nazis didn’t like the plot’s moral message and banned it after its completion.

Hans Steinhoff

Director

Cast

Olga Tschechowa's headshot

Olga Tschechowa

Nora
Siegfried Breuer's headshot

Siegfried Breuer

Stefan Brock
Angelika Hauff's headshot

Angelika Hauff

Christine von Hardegg
Friedrich Domin's headshot

Friedrich Domin

Professor von Hardegg
Klaus Pohl's headshot

Klaus Pohl

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