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Sabin Hake stated in many words in her book,"The popular Entertainment of the third Reich, this and many other pictures of the time in 1938 was made during the year of the night of broken glass.The Nazis were hypocrites , they did not tolerate Jews but they tolerated citizens who were black, but did not except them. The scene where Madelon, playing Don Juan, is now in drag, at a Ale Inn, She is having a sword fight with the customers . Four ,or less are white , one is black,. This suppose to take place in France during the Napoleonic type period, I don't know if there was integration yet.But it showed, even in the Nazi period ,that film was illusion any how. This is a good digital print , tinted green. Germany does not sell it yet. This is the first in the U.S.A. There is that forbidden music Jazz mix with the music of that period , Napolionic. Lillian Harvey plays Madelon, who is raised up by grandpa General De Estroux , play by Anton Impkamp, as a tomboy. But When he dies Ceasar,played by Paul Dahlke, Informs her that she has to marry a man ,that her grandfather choose for her.Unil arrangements are made she must stay at a convent school. She protest against this. Even at the school she refuses to get married. The nuns punish her and then she prays to her grandpa for help. He suggest to marry the suitor. She is given a picture of the alleged suitor.Ferdidand, while she on her way.Little she knows it's the cousin of the suitor, Prefict Barbarossa, Fat and ugly.Once the maid of the house of Alleged suitor tells her whats going on,she knock out page ,Werner Stock, to dress up in his clothes and she dresses him up in her wedding dress. This way to trick the prefect. She escapes and meet the love of her life at the ale, inn, Ferdinand ,played by Victor Staal, and his friend Henri De Grey, played by Paul Kemp, They defend her in the sword fight , not knowing he's a girl. Well they all set out for adventure together. Ceasar and a group of men are searching for her demanded by Barbarossa.All three goes to a Bordello. Knowing she not a man, she has to find some way to avoid any contact. In the house ,she makes a card bet about something to the two others , that if they loose then they all have to leave. Ferd and Hen both loose. all three leave. But then Ferd tries to trick Don Juan, to kiss a flower girl . It fails. Then Ferd and Henri are going to visit the house of Countess Mallefougasse, played by Kate Kooling, the next day to propose to one her two twin daughters,Eve and Anais played by Margot and Hedi Hopfner. Madelon tries to stop the engagement which ends up in a duel against Ferd,but barely injuring him. But the countess call the police and haves her arrested. Confronting s could be fiancé, Barbarossa, who doesn't know he's facing his betrothed, she tricks him in pulling a trick to his cousin. By dressing up in female drag, more confused gender, to make Ferd believe that she was a women dressed up as a man, so she can tell him the truth. Well Ceasar shows up and confronts him with that being Barbs fiancé.She ends up in trial for this , Charges by Barbarossa. Then the school girl , of the convent show up, Then Babarossa recognizes one of them as his daughter and he drops the charges. Now Madelon, she and Ferd can live happily ever after. available at www.reichskino.com 09/07/11.I was wrong it wasn't a digital print but never less a first rate print 09/8/11