echt
- a not fake or counterfeit
- Where today is a real Aida on the order of Emmy Destinn, an echt Siegfried like Lauritz Melchior or a true Norma such as Rosa Ponselle? In the Arcadian past, there were giants on .
- The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle.
- Trying for Brecht but never being echt, the film is only a procession of skits, songs, dialogues and newsreels.