7PM: The lavish, broadly scaled feature HILDE (2009, 137 mins, German with English subs) from director Kai Wessel dramatizes the life of Hildegard Knef (1925-2002), arguably the most popular actress and chanteuse in post-world-war-2-Germany. Yet in lieu of presenting a chronological and all-inclusive account of Knef's decades-long career, Wessel and screenwriter Maria von Heland use Knef's 1966 concert at the "Berlin Philharmonie" as a narrative framing device from which they exclusively flash back to the years depicting the performer's early ascent to stardom; the film thus ends as Knef is just beginning to achieve acclaim and recognition as a vocalist.