It's all very pretty and moving, but it seems Petzold has the same tendency as his fellow European filmmakers born in postwar Europe of subsuming the complexity of historicity under preposterous melodrama and sentimentality...Nina Hoss is such a good actress though.
"I shall lead you, while love is my guide. It will strew the way with roses, for no rose is without a thorn. Play your magic flute so it protects us on our way."