An example of Sirk's German work which treads similar melodramatic ground to later Hollywood masterpieces.

An example of Sirk's German work which treads similar melodramatic ground to later Hollywood masterpieces. Set in Puerto Rico where a local land owner marries Astree, a Swedish woman, who grows to hate her husband. Critics have pointed out that the tale of an Ayrian beauty in a ‘dangerous’ exotic location is a bit too much from a film made in Germany during the Third Reich but then complexity, subversiveness, and sympathy characterize Sirks work, you can decide for yourselves.