Boccaccio (1936)

Movie
Original title	Boccaccio
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1936
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Herbert Maisch
script	Emil Burri , Walter Forster
production	Max Pfeiffer
music	Franz Doelle
camera	Constantine Cheet
cut	Carl Otto Bartning
occupation
Willy Fritsch : Town clerk Petruccio Heli Finkenzeller : Fiametta, Petruccio's wife Albrecht Schoenhals : Cesare d'Este, Duke of Ferrara Gina Falckenberg : Duchess Francesca, his wife Paul Kemp : Publisher Calandrino Fita Benkhoff : Bianca, his wife Albert Florath : Bartolomeo, captain Tina Eilers : Pia, his wife Ernst Waldow : Ricco, the Duke's confidante Hans Hermann Schaufuss : Chief Justice Anita Düvel : Woman who thinks she recognizes Boccaccio Rudolf Biebrach : Man who thinks he recognizes Boccaccio Partners of the Duchess: Vilma Bekendorf , Ada Lübben , Alice Ullrich , Inge Vesten , Helga Karwa Young women from Ferrara: Annemarie Korff , Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel , Nelly Ritter , Elly von Kovatsy , Ilse Wendt Students: Clemens Hasse , Bernhard Kaspar , Jörn Valery , Egon Vogel

Boccaccio is a 1936 turned German operettas - feature film by Herbert Maisch . The main roles are played by Willy Fritsch and Heli Finkenzeller .

action

The film is set at the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century. Petruccio lives in Ferrara with his wife Fiametta . He is initially a clerk at the city court. Under the pseudonym Giovanni Boccaccio , he writes amorous stories that divide the city's spirits. While the women read the texts with delight, the men are indignant at the moral freedom. When the Duke of Ferrara, Cesare d'Este, has a rendezvous with the wife of the publisher Calandrino, he is almost caught off guard when he comes home. When Calandrino published the Duke's amorous adventures, described in detail by Boccaccio, he was put in prison by Petruccio, who has since been appointed judge himself. So that his identity is not revealed at an early stage, Petruccico has no choice but to condemn his alter ego to death in absentia. After a multitude of confusions, the climax comes when two masked men appear at a nightly ball who pretend to be Boccaccio.

background

The film was produced by Universum-Film AG Berlin under the production management of Max Pfeiffer between mid-February and mid-April 1936 in the Ufa studios in Neubabelsberg and premiered on August 11, 1936 in the UFA-Palast ( Berlin ).

The film music is by Franz Doelle , the lyrics by Charles Amberg . Individual songs such as “Bella Fiametta”, “Alles, alles tu 'ich aus Liebe” and “Strahlende Sonne” were published by Ufaton Verlag, interpreted by Charles Amberg.

reception

The lexicon of international film described the film as "an amusing UFA film operetta that sometimes tries to tie in with Amphitryon with a satirical undertone ".

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Web links

• Boccaccio in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Boccaccio at filmportal.de
• Boccaccio at murnau-stiftung.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme: Film lexicon of full-length German and German-language sound films after their German premieres, Klaus Archiv Berlin 2006, p. 35
2. ↑ Wolfgang Adler: Schlagerchronik from 1892–1959, Vol. 3, Sender Freies Berlin, 1987, ISBN 978-3922564003
3. ↑ Boccaccio. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .