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The Song of Songs(Movie, 1933)

1h 30min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
The Song of SongsRating: 3.0/5 (with 88 votes)
The Song of Songs is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Marlene Dietrich as a naive German peasant named Lily who moves to Berlin and suffers a considerable amount of heartache. This particular version of the film was based on the 1908 novel The Song of Songs (Das hohe Lied) by Hermann Sudermann. The novel's original title, which translates to English as "The High Song", does indeed refer to the Song of Solomon, which is often described in German as "Das Hohe Lied der Liebe". However, that is not the only possible inference. "HoheLied" has been translated as "ode" "hosannas" "praises" and used in purely secular as well as religious contexts. Most telling in this case is the use in German of the entire phrase to describe the "great song of love" or "ode to love" in Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. This creates a double layer of meaning to the title of the novel in German, one that could not be duplicated in an English rendition. The 1914 play, The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon, also contributed to this version. It is a remake of the 19... ()
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About The Song of Songs

After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Germany
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 9 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/19/1933
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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