Ball in the Savoy (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ball in the Savoy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Martin |
| script | Paul Martin Franz Tassié |
| production |
Central-Europa-Film GmbH, Berlin ( Waldemar Frank ) |
| music |
Paul Abraham Lothar Brühne Heino Gaze Heinz Gietz |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| occupation | |
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Ball im Savoy is a German feature film by Paul Martin from 1955 based on the play of the same name by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda from 1932. As a newly wed couple who find each other again after various turbulences, Rudolf Prack and Eva- To see Ingeborg Scholz .
action
After the end of their honeymoon, which took them to Brussels, Paris, Barcelona and Naples, Madeleine and Paul are on their way home again and are already looking forward to continuing their honeymoon in their home. But they did not expect the following problems.
Paul receives a telegram from his ex-girlfriend Tangolita, who does not allow the newly married husband to rest. When they separated, she made Paul promise to go out with her again later. Right now, at this inopportune time, she is trying to honor that promise. In his distress, Paul can only think of his old friend Mustapha Bei. The embassy attaché, divorced six times, trained in diplomacy through these marriages and also endowed with plenty of humor, is supposed to sort out this unpleasant matter. But his attempts at Tangolita are futile; she insists on having dinner with Paul at the Savoy ball. But Paul and Mustapha have a new plan: Under the pretext of meeting his “old friend” McKenny, the famous conductor of the ball orchestra, shrouded in mystery, Paul will go to the ball in the Savoy so that he can dine in peace with Tangolita. Madeleine suspects the real connections and also goes to the ball. Here she discovers her Paul during a vigorous flirtation with his ex. On the spur of the moment, she picks up the first gentleman who comes around, the shy young assessor Victor, to get her husband back with the same coin.
And then there is a big scandal in the ballroom. In her excessive jealousy, Madeleine throws at her Paul that she cheated on him. Since these words can also be heard over the loudspeakers, the city has its talk of the day. Madeleine is celebrated in the press as a "marital hero" and the divorce is almost perfect. Literally at the last minute McKenny, who is really called Daisy Parker and is Madeleine's cousin, arrives and uses a ruse to save the almost broken marriage. Madeleine, gentle as a deer, and Paul, one more marital lesson, become a happy couple again. But even Daisy does not go away empty-handed, because Mustapha assures her that as his seventh wife he will never leave her.
production
The production company was Central-Europa-Film GmbH Berlin, the producer was Waldemar Frank . The working title of the film was Europe's great music parade . All recordings were made in the Hamburg-Wandsbek studio. The Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra played . Caterina Valente and Jon Bubbles danced. Bibi Johns, Bully Buhlan , Rasma Ducat, Illo Schieder, Gisela Griffel , 3 Peheiros and Caterina Valente sang . Herbert Kirchhoff and Albrecht Becker created the buildings, Waldemar Frank and Helmut Ungerland took over the production management.
The film had its world premiere in the Federal Republic on April 27, 1955 in the Berlin cinema Kiki (Kino im Kindl).
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the film as an attempt at a German musical pleasure game, banal and full of clichés.
Kino.de was of the opinion that “clichés and banalities” “destroy the critical potential of the story right from the start”, “while the actors around Rudolf Prack and Eva-Ingeborg Scholz would rather save themselves over time”. Based on Stefan Székely's Austro-Hungarian variant from 1934, music film specialist Paul Martin interpreted the operetta model by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Alfred Grünwald in 1955 as “a shallow number revue”.
Web links
- Ball at the Savoy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ball in the Savoy at filmportal.de
- Ball at the Savoy Illustrated Film Stage 2756
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 487
- ↑ Ball in the Savoy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Ball in the Savoy film review kino.de