Love comes, love goes, in the eternal quest for fulfillment… Ich hab’ vielleicht noch nie geliebt…
Perhaps I’ve never been in love… not yet…, the haunting melody of the song – first used for the chorus dancers – goes on to tell the woman, the man, the audience…
And whilst the luscious and gorgeous musical and Terpsichorean performances both, foreshadowing the arrival of the Star, leave one spellbound, the song, in its haunting and sensuous simplicity, carried by Zarah’s inimitably wondrous and sensual voice, does it even more…
Death will meet Love, and Love will meet Death, yet they are not bound to each other, if not indirectly, in this Austrian Krimi-Geschichte-Film of 1937 with the beautifully talented, erotically sultry Swedish actress-singer Zarah Leander, with the darkest alto voice ever, in the leading feminine role.
The case of the mysterious death will be solved, suspended instead…