Cinematheque: Frank Borzage

Directed by Frank Borzage, US, 1934, 35mm, 91 min. In Germany in the early 1930s, the marriage of a young bookkeeper and his bride survive poverty and hardships due to their great love for one another. Ironically, through its fine, authentic depiction of a pre-WWII Europe, Borzage’s lovely and unusual movie is one of the most emblematic Hollywood films of the Depression era. With Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale