A fan of the allegorical "Fantasy" cinema of France made during the Occupation, a fellow IMDber gave me a copy (with Eng Subs) of a Nazi Musical (!) Made to offer escapism for the tired public. Taking part in a Musical challenge on ICM,I felt it was the perfect time to see the Queen of Nazi Germany cinema.

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Invading the screen as it started to appear that the Nazis were not on the winning side, co-writer/(with Herbert Witt and Johann von Vásáry) director Georg Jacoby (who was married to the leading lady) & cinematographer Konstantin Irmen-Tschet treat the public to lavish,colourfully stylised Musical numbers,miles away from the rubble of their bombed-out homes.

Backed by a whimsical score from Franz Grothe, Jacoby vividly displays a shade of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood,from snow-covered lodges and dazzling dresses,to a magnificently bonkers,15 minute "Axis Tour" Musical final.

Surprisingly keeping the propaganda limited to aside comments on Koestner being a "pure" star, the writers send Koestner on a breezy, whirlwind romantic adventure,with Koestner running away from all the (rather Camp) guys wanting her giving the movie a light Comedy touch,which is joined by a splash of "Woman's Picture",as everyone looks up to the bright lights of Koestner's stardom.

Dancing into a project made just for her, Marika Rökk (who along with her husband were secretly spies for the Soviet Union!) gives a fabulous performance drizzled in charisma as Koestner,whose playful flirting Rökk uses to make Koestner the woman of dreams.

"Die Frau meiner Träume" or "The Woman of My Dreams" is a German movie from 1944 and if you see this year, you maybe already realize that this was made in Nazi Germany. But the Nazi impact here was not too big really, even if a similarity with many propaganda films is that this is also a film in color and that's pretty impressive as there are many German films from 2 decades later that are still in black-and-white. The director and one of the writer of this 95-minute movie is Georg Jacoby and this is possibly his most known work. The lead actress is Marika Rökk, still fairly famous in Germany today despite all the time that has passed and she is also not associated with Nazi Germany really. Rökk and Jacoby also collaborated on other occasions. Maybe big film buffs will recognize other names in this film as well, especially if they are German, but Rökk is without a doubt the biggest star here and if there is any memorable aspect about the movie than it is her performance, and especially her musical numbers. Yes there is a lot of music in here too besides the somewhat unsuccessful attempts at comedy and the not too memorable romance aspects. The movie dragged on several occasions in my opinion and I personally cannot say I found it relevant whatsoever. It is an award-winning film yes, but not a good one at all in my opinion and even for its time it is nothing special apart from the use of color and Rökk perhaps. It's fine that it is not a propaganda film, but this cannot be the main factor in considering it a quality movie. A film also needs to deliver in terms of acting, directing and story most of all and especially in terms of the latter, it is underwhelming and just not good enough. I give it a thumbs-down. watch something else instead.

I've had this movie on DVD for a while. The version that I got was distributed from prestige video of Russia and sold in U. S. A. Here it is I had first rented this from German video language center and it was a faded print. but when i bought it on DVD the style of the beginning credit styles was different . It was in German but it didn't mention afar color. But when i looked at a version of a clip from it on you tube,this was the warner brother Germany release,the style of the credits in the beginning were different too and did mention afar color but was freeze frame style. Obviously this was the original titles but were in some damage that they had to freeze frame each scene. I believe that the faded print was a television release version,may be? The one i bought could have been a reissue for the theaters ,this was also used for the cassette version-pal. Because it was printed on Eastman color stock ,may be, they could not mention Agfacolor.