Film
The Secret Lie
1938 · 1h 20m · Drama
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Overview
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.”
Cast

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
Rennbahnreporter

Walter Gross
Rundfunkreporter

Lotte Spira

Leo Peukert
Opernhausdirektor

Liselotte Schaak
Krankenschwester

Hansi Arnstaedt
Mrs. Latour

Ernst Legal
Bankdirektor, Finanzberater Carmens
S.O. Schoening
Doktor, Spieler am Pokertisch
Günther Ballier
Fetscherin, Hans
Crew
- Nunzio MalasommaDirector
- Philipp Lothar MayringWriter
- Harald G. PeterssonWriter
- H. von PuttkamerNovel
- Karl HasselmannDirector of Photography
- Gertrud Hinz-NischwitzEditor
Details
- Release date
- March 25, 1938
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
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