Two years after Hä;xan, Christensen wrote and directed this tragicomedy for Ufa-Decla in Berlin. In an effort to escape the label "literary experimentalist," and now working under producer Erich Pommer, Christensen attempted to make a completely commercial film. The result is a strange hybrid. The plot involves a young artist blinded during the war. In love with a mystery woman he met only once at a carnival, the artist ultimately marries a sympathetic Red Cross nurse whom he mistakenly believes to be the same woman. His sight is restored by an American eye surgeon and then the misrecognitions really pile up. The film's feverish series of mistaken identities, masks, conspiracies, and deceptions increasingly destabilize its initial melodramatic premise as it catapults toward farce and even self-parody. The Rembrandt lighting and elegant sets at first seem at odds with the blending of satire, chases, and sexual politics, but the model may well have been DeMille's postwar marital comedy-dramas. The film's Danish title "Who Is His Wife?" best captures some the film's breezy irreverance.-Arne Lunde