This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.
In German with English subtitles. The title translates to Request Concert, or Concert by Request.
During the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin the young Inge Wagner and Luftwaffe Fliegerleutnant (Flight Lieutenant) Herbert Koch meet, and within a few days fall in love. They make plans for their joint future, but before they can get married Herbert is seconded to the Condor Legion and ordered to the Spanish Civil War; he is forced to leave immediately without giving Inge any explanation. The mission is top secret and all contact with home is forbidden, including by letter, and he is unable to contact her with an explanation. When after several months the operation is over, and Herbert is recovering from a severe injury, he is at last able to write to Inge, but she has moved in the meantime and he is unable to trace her...
Wunschkonzert was officially classified as "Politically valuable", "Artistically valuable", "Valuable for the people" and "Valuable for youth", which by Nazi standards put it close to the rank of a major propaganda film such as Karl Ritter's Stukas (1941). After World War II, the Allied Control Council, which in 1945 subjected all German-language films then on release to an ideological examination, banned its performance. It was released later in West Germany with clearance from the FSK motion picture rating system. The love story was intended to strengthen morale at the home front, particularly among women who thought of their loved ones on the front. With this film, Ilse Werner tightened her grip on star status and added to her image the role of the "girl back home", faithfully enduring.
