La Habanera

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Movie
Original title La Habanera
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1937
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Detlef Sierck
script Gerhard Menzel
production Bruno Duday
music Lothar Bruhne ,
Ernst Holder
camera Franz Weihmayr
cut Axel von Werner
occupation

La Habanera is a German feature film by Detlef Sierck from 1937. It tells the story of a young Swede who falls in love with the wrong man in the Caribbean and only realizes her mistake years later. With this melodrama, the actress Zarah Leander was able to build on the success of her first UFA film To New Shores . The name of the film was given by the song La Habanera (The wind told me a song) .

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The young Swedish bourgeois daughter Astrée Sternhjelm (Zarah Leander) travels to Puerto Rico with her aunt . She is fascinated by the Caribbean climate and the openness of the islanders. After meeting the wealthy landowner Don Pedro de Avila, a former bullfighter, she decides to stay on the Caribbean island against her aunt's advice. After the love marriage, their son Juan is born.

Ten years later, the marriage is broken and Astrée is homesick. Don Pedro shows himself to be an arrogant and domineering husband who keeps his wife jealous like a prisoner. He tries to raise the son according to his own ideas. In this situation, Dr. Sven Nagel, a childhood friend of Astrée, visited the island to fight the dangerous tropical fever. The local authorities and especially Don Pedro, however, deny the existence of the disease, although hundreds of people in Puerto Rico die from it every year.

At a party in Don Pedro's house, Astrée meets her childhood friend again, who realizes how unhappy she is. For him she sings the song La Habanera (The wind told me a song) . At that moment the Don Pedro who was present collapsed because he of all people had contracted tropical fever. Dr. Nagel tries to save his life, but needs the serum he has developed for this. Don Pedro had had this destroyed by his helpers beforehand. After Don Pedro's death, Astrée returns with her son and Dr. Nagel returned to Sweden.

background

Filming for La Habanera began in the middle of the Spanish Civil War from August to September 15, 1937 in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife. The studio recordings in the Babelsberg film studio followed from September 30 to November 13, 1937 . The film premiered on December 18, 1937 in the Berlin film theater Gloria-Palast .

As in To New Shores , Detlef Sierck also directed La Habanera . It was his last film in Germany before he went into exile and successfully continued his career in Hollywood under the name Douglas Sirk. Zarah Leander, who already played the leading role in To New Shores , succeeded in building on the success of her first German feature film with her role in La Habanera . The title song La Habanera (the wind told me a song) , one of Leander's most successful music titles, also contributed to this.

When it opened in theaters in 1937, the film was classified as a youth ban . In 1949 he received FSK approval from the age of 16 . The FSK later lifted the age limit. The film rights are held by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation .

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