Romance in a Minor Key

A man has lost his wife. The woman had taken her own life. The man wants to understand why. He begins to look into the traces she left. What he learns takes him back into the past. There had been another relationship in his wife’s life. That relationship stayed hidden for a long time. The man slowly puts the pieces together. The story that comes out is a bitter one. The account turns into a question of guilt and of making amends. The film moves forward through flashbacks. Marianne Hoppe and Paul Dahlke take the leads, with Ferdinand Marian and Siegfried Breuer also in the cast, in Helmut Käutner’s German film of 1943.