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1938 Drama 1h 20m

The Secret Lie

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”

6.0 TMDB RATING
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Principal Cast

Pola Negri

Carmen Casini

Hermann Braun

Cecil Lasko

Herbert Hübner

Bartell

Harald Paulsen

Smith

Josefine Dora

Theres

Suse Graf

Colette

Hans Leibelt

Sam Milbrey

Jupp Hussels

Rennbahnreporter

Walter Gross

Rundfunkreporter

Lotte Spira

Leo Peukert

Opernhausdirektor

Liselotte Schaak

Krankenschwester

Hansi Arnstaedt

Mrs. Latour

Ernst Legal

Bankdirektor, Finanzberater Carmens

S.O. Schoening

Doktor, Spieler am Pokertisch

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