Adventure in Warsaw

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Movie
Original title Adventure in Warsaw
Country of production German Empire ,
Poland
original language German ,
Polish
Publishing year 1938
length 66 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Boese ,
Mieczyslaw Krawicz
script Bobby E. Lüthge ,
Konrad Tom
music Michael Jary
camera Georg Krause
occupation

Adventure in Warsaw , Polish title Dyplomatyczna żona , is a German-Polish film production that was made in 1937. The German version was directed by Carl Boese , the Polish version by Mieczyslaw Krawicz. The main female role is played in both versions by Jadwiga Kenda. The main male roles in the German version are Paul Klinger and Georg Alexander , in the Polish version with Alexander Żabczyński and Jerzy Leszczyński.

The film is based on Franz Grothes operetta A Bit of Comedy .

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The South American Legation Councilor Henry de Fontana and his wife Jadwiga Janowska are on their honeymoon in Paris. De Fontana receives news that he has been assigned to the embassy in Warsaw , which the couple is not very happy about. Jadwiga, a celebrated Polish singer and actress, has decided not to continue on stage for the sake of her newlywed husband. She is especially known and loved in Warsaw and she was just about to perform there. However, Jadwiga decides to travel back to her homeland again to liquidate her apartment and take important souvenirs with her. With a heavy heart, her husband Henry agrees to a brief separation and is reassured that his wife will be incognito. At the train station where the couple are saying goodbye, they meet the beautiful young widow Ines Costello. Ines is in love with De Fontana and pays for a chance with him now that he is left alone.

However, Jadwiga's game of hide and seek doesn't work. Theater director Stanislaus Bilinski, who had already been pestered by the Polish radio and the press with questions about his star without being able to give a satisfactory answer, accidentally learns that Jadwiga is in Warsaw. But not only that, he also learns that his star has married and who too. With this knowledge he tries to get Jadwiga to perform again. She tries to resist, but fulfills her remaining contract after the pleading pleadings of Bilinski. The ensemble is overjoyed to have Jadwiga among them again. The young soubrette Wanda is also one of the admirers of the great singer and it is Jadwiga who, through her advocacy, succeeded in getting Wanda engaged by Bilinski.

The diplomat Bernardo de Rossi, who had previously campaigned for Jadwiga, is now trying again for her, without knowing that she is married to the delegation councilor Henry de Fontana assigned to him. De Fontana goes to Warsaw himself without knowing that Ines will follow him again. Now confusions are taking their course, which means that Jadwiga finally even signs a new contract for a guest performance in South America with the cunningly proceeded Bilinski, because she believes she has to release her husband. It is Wanda who interferes and clears up De Rossi and tells him how things really are with Jadwiga.

On the train that is supposed to bring the troops to South America, there is a clarifying discussion between the couple. The result is that the young couple get out - Jadwiga will stay with her husband in Warsaw. Wanda has also found her happiness in the operetta buffo Jan, the man with whom Bilinski wanted to couple her from the beginning so as not to lose one of his singers again.

Production notes

The shooting took place in Paris and Warsaw (including a train station) in early 1937. The production companies were Polski Tobis, Warsaw, and Nerthus GmbH in Berlin. The premiere of the Polish version of the film took place on March 28, 1937, the German version on February 1, 1938 in the Promus Palace in Berlin. As always, Bruno Balz provided the lyrics to Michael Jary's songs . For Igo Sym , who was born in Austria , this was the last German-language film appearance, he stayed in Poland after the shooting. The film itself was the last German-Polish co-production before the outbreak of World War II. Adventure in Warsaw was banned on September 7, 1939 by the Reich German film inspection agency in view of the state of war with Poland.

Polish version

The film, made in German-Polish co-production in 1937, was shot once in German and once in Polish. The plot of both films was identical, but the film dialogues differed. The dialogues for the Polish version were adapted to the style of the Polish language and were partially changed as a result. Konrad Tom wrote the dialogues for the Polish version. The actors in both versions were also partly not the same. In the Polish version, the male lead was played by the popular there Aleksander Żabczyński, in the German version, on the other hand, by the actor Paul Klinger, who is very popular in Germany. This also applied to a few other roles. The direction was by Mieczyslaw Krawicz.

The Polish version of the film, of which only a few fragments have been found, is believed to have been destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising. The Polish title of the film was Dyplomatyczna żona . Other titles with which the film is associated: A little comedy , Aventure à Varsovie and Un'avventura a Varsavia . The actors in the Polish version are listed below:

  • Jadwiga Kenda: Jadwiga Janowska
  • Alexander Żabczyński: Henry de Fontana
  • Jerzy Leszczyński: Bernardo de Rossi
  • Michael Znicz: Director Biliński
  • Mieczysława Ćwiklińska: Apolonia
  • Lena Żelichowska: Inez Costello
  • Joseph Kondrat: Kupka, Secretary to the Director
  • Helena Grossówna: Wanda
  • Wojciech Ruszkowski: Jan Wolski (John in German)
  • Loda Halama: folk dancers
  • Wanda Jarszewska: owner of a fashion salon
  • Igo Sym : tenor
  • Tadeusz Frenkel: radio reporter
  • Team Concert Juranda: Appeared only in the Polish version of the film
  • Helena Buczyńska: a waitress in a pastry shop
  • Maria Żabczyńska: Hedwig, maid

Songs in the movie

- Text each Bruno Balz , music Michael Jary -

  • So are women , foxtrot
  • How to dance in Poland! , Foxtrot
  • Today my heart sings a song of happiness! , Waltz song
  • Nice Miss Wanda ... , Tango
  • The best thing about love is marriage! , Foxtrot sung by Baby Gray and Robert Dorsay

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, Volume 9, year 1938, p. 17 f.
  2. ↑ a b Adventure in Warsaw (1937) Dyplomatyczna żona ( Memento from June 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) filmypolskie888.blogspot.de (with film)