Translated from the original German. Recorded in Ottawa, Canada.
Based on the song "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" (For Me It Will Rain Red Roses) written by Hildegard Knef.
Video footage is from Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns' ('The murderers are among us') starring Hildegard Knef and Ernst Wilhelm Borchert.
This was the first feature film produced in Germany after World War II. It was made under the auspices of the newly created DEFA studios and featured the budding new starlet Hildegard Knef. Hildegard Knef went on to great fame in Europe as a singer in the 1960s.
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