(Some spoilers) This film, whose title translates as "Spring Wind") is a vehicle for renowned Italian tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini, who sings a great deal in this movie, particularly in the second half. It begins with German businessman-philanderer Rudy (Erich Winn) who starts a romance with his secretary Elisabeth (Sabine Bethmann) after ditching his previous lover Diana (Lauretta Masiero). Stop-at-nothing Diana tries to instigate a breakup between the two. Returning to Germany, Elisabeth meets Italian tenor Aldo Morani (Tagliavini), a widow with a young son, Dino (Massimo Giuliani.) She had met the child before at Ciampino Airport upon her arrival in Italy. The boy, eager to have a mamma, had taken a liking to the woman. Elisabeth falls in love with Aldo. The two marry. Elisabeth encounters Rudy again by chance. Rudy tries to re-jump the relationship with the woman. She resists. Aldo hears about his wife's possible unfaithfulness. Faced with the dilemma of choosing between the two, she stays with the tenor and his little boy. Perhaps she is moved by the concert of his, which she attends, in which he sings "Non ti scordar di me," "Don't forget me." The Italian-German co-production, directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and Giulio Del Torre, is a fairly predictable and tiresome formula piece done many times before in many variations. It is an almost verbatim remake of Beniamino Gigli's 1935 "Non ti scordar di me" ("Vergiss mein nicht" in the simultaneous German version.) But the film is made quite worthwhile just seeing and hearing Tagliavini sing "Una furtiva lagrima", "O, Paradiso," and other operatic arias, as well as a slew of Neapolitan songs and popular ones including "Volare", which was very popular at the very time this film came out. They, and some nice shots of the city of Rome, make the movie. The rest is treacle and dross.
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