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The Secret Lie

Mar 25, 1938 · 1h 20m
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Drama

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The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”

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Pola Negri
Carmen Casini
Hermann Braun
Cecil Lasko
Herbert Hübner
Bartell
Harald Paulsen
Smith
Josefine Dora
Theres
Suse Graf
Colette
Hans Leibelt
Sam Milbrey
Jupp Hussels
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Directed by Nunzio Malasomma

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Terra-Filmkunst
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