lubitsch last production but not his least interesting film . somehow largely ignore by critic a he couldn not finish it himself and a the movie wasn not co sign by preminger who he do most of the staging . a very strange mix of musical ( a remembrance of the merry widow . ) and classic lubitsch touch sentimentalism ( an impossible love story like cluny brown ) yet a very clever and intelligent one yet not to be understand a some nostalgia of some lost world but rather a testament on eternal feeling prevail on the foolishness of mankind and especially men in time of war with a moral lesson still true today a it be in 1948. billy wild a an answer to preminger who grieve at lubitsch funeral about have lose a great man reply that we still have his film and that sum it all up about that lady in ermine .