A lost masterpiece which means more as a work of art for all ages than an inaccurate -and highly fictionalized- account of the lives of the 3 Brontë sisters and their brother (the name “Brontë” originates from the Greek word for “thunder”) before 1848.
The plot is based on an original story by the Transylvanian writer Theodore Reeves that was adapted for the wide screen by the Welsh writer Keith Winter & the American screenwriter Edward Chodorov, a stage playwright who had contributed to numerous theatrical productions in Broadway.
Produced by the American journalist, freelance writer, screenwriter and producer Robert Buckner.
Music by the wonderous Austrian-Moravian pianist, conductor and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (of Jewish descent, he became an American after the Nazis invaded Austria).
Filmed at Warner Bros Studios in Burbank. California (USA) during November 1942-February 1943.
Directed by the German stage actor and director Curtis Bernhardt/Kurt Bernhardt who was of Jewish descent, was arrested by Gestapo (the police of the Nazi regime) and left Germany in 1933 for France and lived in the USA after 1939.
THE GREAT STAR of the movie is PAUL HENREID, the double (or doppelganger) of the philosopher Albert Camus.
An adaptation of DEVOTION was presented by Lux Radio Theater in 1947, starring Jane Wyman and Vincent Price (
https://archive.org/details/LuxRadioTheatre_201606/LuxRadioTheatre1947-02-17-559Devotion.mp3).
For the spectator to grasp fullt the meaning of the title, it should be noted that the name ''Bronte" means ''Lightning'' or ''Thunder" in Greek, so the title ''DEVOTION" should be translated into like ''LIGHTNINGS OF THUNDER": as a result, the 3 rightful meanings are ''Sisters Bronte", "Sisters of Thunder" or "kindle-ingnition-lighting of the thunder".