In den Hügeln wird Gold gefunden, an der Küste findet man Öl. Größere Vermögen bringen die Träume von Glück, die man hier auf Zelluloid schreibt.
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- Set to music by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Elegie V", from Fünf Elegien, no. 5
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), appears in Hollywood-Elegien, no. 2
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2005
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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