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The Great Sacrifice (1944)
Äls, a young woman from Sweden living in Hamburg in the summer months attracts a newly married explorer, Albrecht Froben who has just returned to his native city. But although Äls seems to be 'life itself', she suffers from a tropical disease which is slowly killing her. Froben is torn between Äls and his wife Octavia, who he seen as a kind of 'heavenly' counterpart to the earthy and beguiling Äls.
Keywords: imdb.hamburg-germany,
imdb.colonialism,
imdb.upper-class,
imdb.married-couple,
imdb.sailing,
imdb.proposal,
imdb.marriage + 107 more,
imdb.rowing,
imdb.female-nudity,
imdb.infatuation,
imdb.sick,
imdb.ill,
imdb.single-parent,
imdb.archery,
imdb.masquerade,
imdb.masked-ball,
imdb.typhoid,
imdb.bedridden,
imdb.dying,
imdb.quarantined,
imdb.quarantine,
imdb.melodrama,
imdb.illness,
imdb.sickness,
imdb.terminal-illness,
imdb.doomed-love,
imdb.epidemic,
imdb.nude-girl,
imdb.female-full-frontal-nudity,
imdb.female-frontal-nudity,
imdb.girl-frontal-nudity,
imdb.doctor-patient-relationship,
imdb.death,
imdb.rose,
imdb.swimming,
imdb.woman-swims-nude,
imdb.dog,
imdb.reference-to-friedrich-nietzsche,
imdb.reference-to-finland,
imdb.neighbor,
imdb.skinny-dipping,
imdb.female-topless-nudity,
imdb.female-star-appears-nude,
imdb.marriage-between-cousins,
imdb.nudity,
imdb.globe,
imdb.bronze-statue,
imdb.reference-to-virgil,
imdb.reference-to-horace,
imdb.statuette,
imdb.mansion,
imdb.coat-of-arms,
imdb.model-ship,
imdb.grandfather-clock,
imdb.shag-carpet,
imdb.reading-a-poem-aloud,
imdb.marriage-proposal,
imdb.woman-playing-piano,
imdb.man-kisses-a-woman-s-hand,
imdb.rowboat,
imdb.meet-cute,
imdb.woman-smoking,
imdb.woman-riding-a-horse,
imdb.terminally-ill-woman,
imdb.mother-daughter-relationship,
imdb.governess,
imdb.swimming-horse,
imdb.romantic-rivals,
imdb.riding-bareback,
imdb.fatalism,
imdb.rainbow,
imdb.kissing-cousins,
imdb.male-cousin-attracted-to-female-cousin,
imdb.elbe-river,
imdb.family-affairs,
imdb.slide,
imdb.unrequited-love,
imdb.writing-in-a-diary,
imdb.carnival,
imdb.woman-dressing,
imdb.concealed-nudity,
imdb.female-bare-back,
imdb.woman-wears-a-nightgown,
imdb.nipples-visible-through-clothing,
imdb.lipizzan-stallion,
imdb.mercedes-benz-convertible,
imdb.following-someone,
imdb.jealous-wife,
imdb.self-sacrifice,
imdb.epidemic-typhus,
imdb.watching-through-a-window,
imdb.riding-crop,
imdb.hospital,
imdb.isolation-ward,
imdb.fate,
imdb.woman-disguised-as-a-man,
imdb.hope,
imdb.selfless-act,
imdb.last-will-and-testament,
imdb.dying-alone,
imdb.uplifting-effect,
imdb.cleavage,
imdb.death-scene,
imdb.glorious,
imdb.horse-riding-on-a-beach,
imdb.cousin-cousin-incest,
imdb.incest,
imdb.horse,
imdb.horseback-riding,
imdb.love-triangle,
imdb.sacrifice,
imdb.sea,
imdb.based-on-novel,
imdb.germany
Production companies: UFA
Runtime: 98 min.
Released: Dec. 8, 1944
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 7+
