[1] Michael Rother produced the music for the film which was released the previous year as his debut solo album Flammende Herzen.

Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering.

First, he meets Karola Faber (Barbara Valentin), the German wife of a U.S.

G.I., who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution.

Peter and Karola visit the local German émigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown.