I'm giving it a nine cause It needs restoration to be a pristine as the 1927 version.Now this version was made under the National Socialist dictatorship So the characters are a bit different.But Now for the Nazi Germany's equivalent to Fox News.Franz Lehar has created a new operetta ," Land of the smiles. Poland is accused of causing wreak and havoc to a small town.A factory is shown how helmets are made for the enemy,at that time. National socialist meeting is Held at Victimized Nietherlands.More Lies!Now the film.In the 1927 version,Janet Gaynors character was passive and innocent acting.She did not know that her fisherman husband, played by George O Brian, was having an affair with another women ,played by Margaret Livingston, until he attempts to murder her.In the Nazi remake,Elske, played By Kristina Soderbaum, characters is strong women.She knows that her fisher man husband Endrik,played by Philip Dorn,before he got smart and left Nazi Germany,maybe he was waiting for the quotas?was having an affair with the other women ,Madlyn played by Anna Dammann.Madlyn is so open about her affair with Endrik, who seems to be more successful as a fisherman than OBriens version,that she openly gives Elske's son,Jon, i.m.d.b makes a mistake and claims Jon is Kleins son,a book as a gift ,in front of everyone in the ice skating scene.Madlyn even confront Elske to give Endrik up.In this version,you have a school teacher and friend of Elske and Endrik, played by Albert Florath.You also got Elskes father, who later confronts Madlyn for trying to break up his daughters marriage with a dog whip.When Elskes agrees to go with Endrik to Tilsit to buy Joan a birthday present and to sell the horse that both got as a wedding present,she already knows that he's going to push her off, since earlier he wanted to take her son away from her when he got the divorce.She rather be dead.But after he changes his mind and she forgives him,she rewarded with a cheap fur coat and a hat ,1939 style,looks exactly like the hat Jane Fonda wore in that film with her and Vannesa Redgraves about Lillian Helman, and champaign as well as a night on the carnival.When the storm happens ,when they go back to their village,in their boat,it's quite different than the other version.While he gets dumped over on the boat,Elske disappears,but the horse swims home.The other women, Madlyn, changes her attitude and spots the horse coming up to the shore with Elske ,holding on to the reins .As soon as Madlyn seeks help, Elske is already up and recovered quickly.The only one who is lying in bed is Endrik and Elske's son Jon. Excellent remake . Available with subtitles at Germanwarfilms.com 11/02/12.11/27/12 I made some Boo Boos on the 27 version.I had not seen it for a long time ,Since it's over exposed on t.v. and I don't want to get burned out from it .So excuse me for that.
Review of The Trip to Tilsit
