Watch on the Rhine
On her lonesome lips a smile.
Directed by Herman Shumlin
Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures
A wartime domestic drama centered on a family's moral courage and sacrifice, where personal bonds are tested by political danger and ideological conviction.
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
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