A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.

Das Lied ist Aus (The Song Is Ended) is a typical early-talkie German musical in every respect, save one. The story, concerning the lives and loves of show folk, ends unhappily -- and surprisingly so. The doleful denouement didn't seem to have much effect on the film's box-office appeal, since Das Lied ist Aus proved a major moneymaker.

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.