Joseph Vilsmaier's tidy bio-pic follows the career of the partly Jewish Comedian Harmonists, a real-life 1930s German singing ensemble who, as the Weimar Era equivalent of the Fab Four, sold thousands of records and packed concert halls. Despite the apolitical ensemble's renditions of such sentimental schmaltz as "Happy Days Are Here Again," the film in no way fuels the fantasy that music salved Germany's political wounds or ultimately sheltered the Harmonists from the Nazi horror.