The Nazis couldn't stop these gay pop legends from writing the soundtrack to Germany.
The story of a great friendship between Bruno Balz and Michael Jary. The most successful duo in schlager and film music has shaped German-language popular culture for five decades. The wild twenties, then cinema glamour and Gestapo imprisonment, new beginnings, and swinging sixties - their songs are still alive today.
Direction
Witz weaves archival gold with painful honesty.
Production
Period footage that'll make you gasp at what survived.
Director
Martin Witz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Balz wrote lyrics for propaganda films while imprisoned, a moral compromise the documentary doesn't flinch from examining.
Their song 'Davon geht die Welt nicht unter' became an ironic Nazi anthem — then a post-war redemption story. The layers, people.
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