Acrobat schö-ö-ö-n

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Movie
Original title Acrobat schö-ö-ö-n
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1943
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wolfgang Staudte
script Wolfgang Staudte
production Werner Malbran for Tobis
music Friedrich Schröder
Paul Hühn
camera Georg Bruckbauer
cut Eva Kroll
occupation

as well as the children of Charlie Rivels

Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n is a German feature film by Wolfgang Staudte from 1943 with Charlie Rivel in the title role.

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Charlie, an aging acrobat and clown, and the young singer and dancer Monika live together in a poor attic apartment. Both are waiting for their chance to finally perform in front of a large audience. When Monika gets the opportunity to audition with the director of the Tabarin variety theater, she takes Charlie with her in the hope of being able to accommodate him as well. However, the director does not hire him as a clown, only as a temporary worker for the stage workers. While Charlie continues to eke out a dreary life backstage, Monika's star as the partner of Tabarin star Orlando quickly begins to shine. However, this is a womanizer and, moreover, quite unreliable. One day when Orlando appears drunk again for the stage rehearsal, Monika compresses him. The following evening he takes her aside and explains to her that his allure-like demeanor is just a PR campaign in order to keep talking - especially in the press. From now on he behaves in an exemplary manner towards her.

Charlie's descent, however, seems unstoppable. He loses his stage worker and is demoted to the night watchman of the establishment. But the talented entertainer is no longer ready to put his light under a bushel. He puts on make-up and one night appears in his clown masquerade in front of empty chairs. He is all the more surprised when suddenly applause rang out from the background after his improvised number. It was donated by Bibiana, a currently unemployed trapeze artist, who was secretly watching him. Both agree to do a common act the following night. When the Tabarin director observes the two of them, Charlie is fired for good.

During the premiere of a new variety program, trapeze artist Bruno Martoni injured his hand. This is the chance for Charlie and Bibiana to jump in and put their skills to the test. But Charlie is late because he was stopped. Again he seems out of luck. With Bibiana and the trapeze artist Fred Martoni he sits depressed on the back of the revolving stage, while Orlando and Monika receive their applause in front of the audience. Suddenly the stage rotates due to an error and all three are in the spotlight. In no time they improvise a variety act - with Fred and Bibiana on the trapeze, while Charlie creates the laughs. And they are huge. Charlie has his breakthrough and a great career seems to be about to begin. Meanwhile Orlando and Monika get engaged.

Production notes

Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n is Wolfgang Staudte's first full-length feature film and at the same time the only German film by the famous Spanish music clown Charlie Rivel. The title refers to Rivels famous exclamation of the same name, his trademark, as part of his circus acts.

The film was shot from December 2, 1942 to the end of February 1943 in the Tobis studio in Berlin-Johannisthal and in the Jofa studio in Berlin-Grunewald . The outdoor recordings were made in the Theater des Volkes Berlin ( Großes Schauspielhaus ). The premiere was on December 1, 1943 in the Alhambra cinema in Berlin on Kurfürstendamm. The costs of Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n amounted to 1,391,000 Reichsmarks , the income up to May 1944 amounted to 1,712,000 RM.

Rivel shows passages of his stage program in the film. On the occasion of his 40th stage anniversary, he had received the Golden Medal of the Berlin Scala in 1938.

The buildings were designed by Erich Grave and Hans Luigi. Hans Fritz Beckmann wrote the music texts .

The song “Tomorrow is all good again” is sung by Clara Tabody . Together with Karl Schönböck , Tabody performs the song “As you stand in front of me” several times in the film.

Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n was also launched in the Scandinavian countries between 1944 and 1946, and with success in Denmark in the summer of 1944.

Reviews

In the lexicon of international films you can read: "Wolfgang Staudte's directorial debut offers light entertainment that gains in weight through the participation of the lovable clown Charlie Rivel".

Bogusław Drewniaks The German film 1938–1945 wrote: “Staudte's work (script and direction) was perhaps not an event for the audience of the time. A rather well-made grotesque comedy about the acrobatic clown Charlie Rivel from the world-famous old Spanish acrobat and clown family. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ acrobat schö-ö-ö-n. 1943, Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official Swiss organ, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Wolfgang Staudte
  3. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. Berlin-Berchtesgaden 2001, p. 119
  4. ↑ according to Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945. A complete overview. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 474
  5. ↑ German sound films, p. 119
  6. ↑ according to Der deutsche Film 1938-1945, p. 747
  7. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Das Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 1, P. 68, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987
  8. ↑ Der deutsche Film 1938-1945, p. 474