I had bough this back in March. Reichkino was reordering new master of their old films. I got Remasterting and restoring confused. This print was excellent,but, it cam From a second generation video print, since the original film element was good , that was that. F.W. Marnau institute unfortunately can't restore all their German classic due to their limited funds. They also don't restore for video released, outside of Germany , of German classic films that our still banned. But have preserved the conditions of the print and offer Weak duplicates for other countries or the government won't give them funds for preserving their popular classics.The portrayals of New York are realistic, although many of the exteriors might be in some parts of Berlin. The drug store scene is a dead give away when, after Ann and Frank have fought and are leaving it, you see an advertisement of Coca Cola with Heirich George photo, holding the Cola bottle, They over American flag the movie. The Court scene has the American flag behind the Judge, played by Paul Bilt.The flag is also on the desk of the managing editors office,Manning played By Otto Stoeckel. This is to give the impression that this is the united state.Willy Fritsch portrays Court reporter Gil. His friend,played by Oscar Sima ,as Stoddard. Another actor stalwart is Paul Kemp as Frank Black. They are involved in various jobs of the Newspaper. Another stalwart of film acting is fat and jolly Albert Florath as the oil Magnate Jackson. Well Ann is charged with Vagrancie and is a look a like of Magnates niece. He come to her rescue,as a court reporter.He thinks that she the niece of the oil magnate herself. Wants to do a story for himself. Making up a story that they are engaged,the judge pushes them to get married. He only wants to keep her to do a story and until her probation is up.She goes along with it.His friends ,frank and Stoddard help Gil not to get romantically involved. It gets to the point That he can't stand her longer. So he takes her back to her alleged Uncle,as she tries to explain that she not the niece?. When she confront him , playing with his trains,he tries to call the police . But convinces him to put on in order to get her man back. There is a car chasing sequence where Willy goes after her going to the opera, to get her back. Ends up with a bunch of fire men going to the theater to put out alleged fire. The body guard and boxer,Boxer Brown? played by Thomas Cziruchin?kidnaps her leaving Jackson behind , ending up going with Gil and the others to rescue her.Well it seems that Boxer Brown was taking her to his hide out ,where Jacksons real niece is there too. As Ann finds out, Jacksons niece is in love with his body guard but He opposes it. All well that ends well. As I had discovered Marnau Insitue has a lot of films that haven't been restored yet and many that are not on the list of restoring 09/02/11
Review of Glückskinder
