Nur am Rhein …

Nur Am Rhein (Only on the Rhine) is a standard “heimat”-style musical, with handsome young Germans lifting their voices and beer steins in song and pretty blonde frauleins giggling appreciatively before going into their dance. At the end of WWI, the British forces occupy the Rhineland, where English captain Barrymore (Igo Sym) falls in love with burgomeister’s daughter Hanna (Dasy D’Ora). When Barrymore’s interpreter Lehmann (Julius Falkenstein) spreads malicious gossip about the captain and his lady, Hanna’s brother Karl (Carl Bauhaus) decides to teach the loose-tongued Lehmann as lesson. Karl and his college buddies subject Lehmann to a fraternity hazing, and as a result he is arrested and threatened with a lengthy prison term for insulting a British official. Only the evacuation of the English saves Karl from durance vile, allowing Barrymore and Hanna to get married with a clear conscience.