Complex sentence: The wife plays the role of Virgin Mary, and she even got a tear drop in the corner of her eye--the whole setting is rather theatrical and very much romanticized as it was made in a period where national romanticism was very popular in northern Europe.
Split into simpler sentences: The wife plays the role of Virgin Mary, and she even has a tear drop in the corner of her eye. The whole setting is rather theatrical and very much romanticized as it was made in a period where national romanticism was very popular in northern Europe.