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Oct 16, 1994 · Broken Lullaby: Directed by Michael Kennedy. With Mel Harris, Rob Stewart, Oliver Tobias, Jennifer Dale. Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Michael Kennedy
- 1994-10-16
Broken Lullaby (a.k.a. The Man I Killed) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda is based on the 1930 play L'homme que j'ai tué by Maurice Rostand and its 1931 English-language adaptation, The Man I Killed, by Reginald Berkeley.
Mel Harris is Jordan Kirkland, a divorced New York family history researcher whose Aunt Kitty Ridgewood (Vivien Reis) asks her to find a missing Faberche-egged music box which she believes holds the secret to her orphaned childhood, and is said to be worth $10 millon.
Mar 30, 2023 · Often overlooked amongst director Ernst Lubitsch’s comedies and musicals, Broken Lullaby is a riveting and brilliant romantic drama from the pre-Code era, starring Lionel Barrymore (It’s a Wonderful Life), Nancy Carroll (The Kiss Before the Mirror), and Phillips Holmes (The Criminal Code).
Mar 7, 2022 · Broken Lullaby. Though famed for his Golden Age comedies, Ernst Lubitsch also had a knack for the serious stuff. In 1932's antiwar film Broken Lullaby, he grapples with guilt, redemption, and post-traumatic stress disorder—then known as shell shock—in the post-World War I period.
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- Kino Lorber
When a genealogist travels to Eastern Europe to trace the family history of her wealthy aunt, her search for missing records and a priceless Faberge egg leads her to a Russian Count and into a romance with a mysterious art expert.
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Roaming across the great cities of Europe, genealogist Jordan Kirkland attempts to solve the riddle of her aunt's mysterious past by finding a priceless family...
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