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Die Unbekannte
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Die Unbekannte ("The Unknown") is a 1936 film from Nazi Germany, directed by Frank Wisbar.The film opens at a police station, where the desk sergeant tells his boss that a body was fished out of the river. The two men step into the morgue and pull back the sheet, finding the corpse of a woman with an odd, Mona Lisa-esque smile on her face. They wonder what could have driven her to drown herself.The movie then cuts back to show the answer to that question. The dead lady is Madeline (Sybille Schmitz) a nightclub singer and apparently a breaker of hearts (and it's vaguely implied that she might have been a Gold Digger or even a High-Class Call Girl). She finishes an engagement at a club and heads to the train station to catch a train to her next gig. There she meets one Thomas Bentick, a scientist and explorer who is headed off to Africa on a five-year expedition to explore the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers. Thomas has a fiancée, but she left ahead of him, and a little thing like another woman isn't going to stop him from looking up the alluring Madeline. They fall in love, and Madeline has to weigh her love for Thomas against her guilt at possibly stealing him away from both his fiancée and his work.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Art Imitates Art: The most likely reason that the "L'Inconnue de la Seine" mask became famous is the curiously knowing smile on the woman's face. The film ends with a closeup of Madeline's face in just such a quiet smile as she drowns herself. | |
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Catapult Nightmare: It's not really a nightmare per se, just a dream in which Madeline dreams of Evelyn on a boat to Africa looking at a picture of Thomas, followed by her face taking the place of Evelyn's face. It certainly disturbs her, as she bolts up from her bed in classic Catapult Nightmare style. | |
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Actor Allusion: Sybille Schmitz made her feature film debut as another young woman Driven to Suicide by drowning seven years prior in G.W. Pabst’s Diary of a Lost Girl. Both films feature a strikingly similar close-up of Schmitz’s lifeless face after her body is recovered. | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him: Thomas proclaims his love for Madeline. To stop him from breaking things off with his fiancée and abandoning his research, she lies and says that she never loved him. It works, as he leaves for Africa the next day. | |
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