"Kora Terry" is a German 100-minute movie from 1940, sot his one is already over 75 years old. The director is Georg Jacoby and quite a few people worked on the script here. The unanimous star of this movie is Marika Rökk in one of her more known career performances. People with an interest in German cinema from that time may also recognize Quadflieg and Leibelt, maybe even some others. The movie was made during the days of Nazi Germany, but compared to some other stuff from that time, it is not a propaganda movie at all. It's really more of a Rökk showcase and here we see an early example of an actor (actress) playing identical twin characters. The one in the title is just one of them and these characters could not be any more different. One is entirely bad, the other entirely good it seems. And these characterization are also what the film entirely relies on. It develops in fields as crime, death, police investigation, so it is definitely much more on the serious side. Add certain mix-up elements and you basically have the entire thing. I personally did not enjoy the watch too much. I am not sure Rökk's performance here justifies her star level, but maybe it is just the way her characters were written that was not too much on the inspired side. Always a bit of a shame to see so many writers and then such a weak movie overall. The parenthood component is also not making even half as much a difference and reaching half the memorability value it could have. I give this black-and-white film a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
Review of Kora Terry
