The blue fox

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Movie
Original title The blue fox
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1938
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Viktor Tourjansky
script Karl Georg Külb
production Bruno Duday for UFA
music Lothar Bruhne
camera Franz Weihmayr
cut Walter Fredersdorf
occupation

The Blue Fox is a German feature film from 1938 directed by Viktor Tourjansky . Zarah Leander is again playing alongside Willy Birgel in a UFA film production . Further leading roles are occupied by Paul Hörbiger , Karl Schönböck and Jane Tilden .

The film is based on Ferenc Herczeg 's play of the same name, original title A kék róka .

action

Stephan Paulus is a private lecturer and researches fish as a scientist . His wife Ilona tries again and again in vain to pull him away from his work. However, he is sure of his wife and thinks that he no longer has to woo her. Rather, he is of the opinion that she has everything to be happy. After all, he thought up giving Ilona a blue fox for her wedding day , but he forgets that too.

For a change, Ilona visits her aunt Margit on her estate . On the way back she met the aviator Tibor Vary in an incident. Both immediately enjoy each other, Tibor even falls seriously in love with her. Ilona also tells him that she is married; but he does not necessarily see it as an obstacle to soliciting them. He really wants to see her again.

When he met his longtime friend Dr. Stephan visits Paulus in Budapest , he learns that Ilona is his wife. So she is out of reach for him. Taking away his friend's wife is out of the question for him. Nevertheless, he falls in love with Ilona more and more. In addition, the operetta tenor Trill appears in Budapest and makes advances to Ilona.

Dr. Paul does not notice any of this; he is too absorbed in his research. Ilona is easy friends with the penniless young fashion illustrator Lisi, whom she also introduces to her husband. Lisi notices immediately that the couple have actually been going their separate ways for a long time and wants to catch up with the scholar, who after all is not incapable and is soon to become a professor. It suits her that she has always been interested in freshwater fish and so she got the idea to ingratiate herself with Paul with her knowledge in this field and gradually make herself indispensable. He's excited: finally someone with whom he can talk shop about fish.

In the meantime, the tenor Trill has invited Ilona to his apartment on Türkenstrasse to test her extraordinary voice, he says. Ilona likes to go there, also because she wants to make Tibor more jealous. When he asks her about it, she says carelessly that she had chosen the new blue fox on Türkenstrasse. And so the skirmishes go on happily until they dissolve on a houseboat, at least to the extent that Ilona tells her husband that she cheated on him with another man. Paul takes this calmly. Tibor, however, can't believe his ears, since he's not that man, it can only be Trill. Deeply disappointed, he wants to leave Budapest.

As he is almost on the plane, he notices Ilona, ​​who does not want to allow him to leave the city without her. Now she finally tells the unhappy Tibor with whom she has betrayed her husband - at least in thought - namely with him. Tibor is so relieved that he proposes marriage to her during a loop. At first she hesitates; after the third loop she happily agrees.

background

The screenplay by Karl Georg Külb is based on the play The Blue Fox (OT: A kék róka ) by Ferenc Herczeg . Herczeg achieved world fame with the blue fox from 1917. The Hungarian-German Ferenc Herczeg was even nominated twice (1926 and 1927) for the Nobel Prize.

The Swedish film director Mauritz Stiller staged a comedy film based on Herczeg's Der Blaufuchs under the title Riddaren af ​​Igar (German title: Erotikon ) as early as 1920 . With Stiller the scholar is an entomologist.

For Zarah Leander this film was a failure because the plot was too improbable and the actress was thought to be a bad cast. The audience also tended to reject the film. What stuck in the memory is Zarah Leander's song Can love be a sin? , which is also known to people who have not seen the film.

After this comedy film, Zarah Leander took a break of several months. In her next film It was a rushing ball night , Carl Froelich , who has proven himself in the past, directed again, as Zarah Leander was not satisfied with the director Viktor Tourjansky.

Songs in the movie:

production

The shooting took place from August 2nd to the beginning of October 1938 in the vicinity of Berlin and Budapest , as well as on the Babelsberg outdoor area and in the UFA studios Berlin-Tempelhof . The manufacturing costs amounted to about 886,000  RM .

The tenor Eric Helgar lent Karl Schönböck his singing voice for the song Mein Herz den Frau'n . Werner Schlichting designed the film structures.

The premiere of the film in Germany took place on December 14, 1938 in the Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf . The Berlin premiere took place on January 12, 1939 in the Gloria Palast .

The film had its TV premiere in Germany on July 18, 1984.

DVD

  • DVD Der Blaufuchs , provider: Koch Media GmbH, release date March 26, 2010
  • Zarah Leander Edition 2 (4 DVDs): The great love / The blue fox / The way out / I am Leander / That must be enough ,
    provider: Black Hill Pictures GmbH / Koch Media GmbH, date of publication May 8, 2009
  • DVD The Blue Fox , provider: Universum Film, release date August 18, 2003
  • DVD Der Blaufuchs , Provider: ems (extras and background information)

Reviews

“With her phenomenally deep, smoky voice, Zarah Leander wraps all men around the swaddle. [sic] With her provocative, almost cold appeal, she meets the androgynous zeitgeist of the thirties and forties. With her hit 'Can love be a sin?' She still hits the men's world in the middle of the languishing heart. Ilona's self-confident demeanor does not seem to fit the role of women in the late thirties. Victor Tourjansky's love film is based on a play by F. Herczeg and offers beautiful views of Hungary and its beautiful Danube metropolis, Budapest. 'The Blue Fox' is not one of the later UFA propaganda films [sic] in which the Swedish singer Zarah Leander also plays. "

- Nicola Turri at Filmreporter

“After Zarah Leander rose to the screen star of the 1930s through Douglas Sirk's directorial work 'Zu neue Ufern' and 'La Habanera', the international director Viktor Tourjansky, who came from Ukraine, shot it for the Thirties typical mix of comedy and romance film. In the film that was successful at the time, Leander sings the evergreen “Can love be a sin?”, Which the successful Schlager lyricist Bruno Balz (1902–1988) wrote for her, along with many other songs. The homosexual courtship was arrested and tortured several times by the Nazis because of his inclination, but ultimately survived the terror regime unscathed. "

- prisma.de

“The elegant and bored wife of an absent-minded professor falls in love with his friend, a charming aviator, but resists the temptation until the husband finds a more suitable partner in a colleague. Clichéd tabloid comedy that hardly gets any shine even from the star cast. "

- Lexicon of international film

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Riddaren af ​​Igar at Wissen.de
  2. ↑ a b Cornelia Zumkeller: Zarah Leander. Your films - your life . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1988, pp. 104, 107, 108; Heyne Film Library No. 32/120
  3. ↑ The blue fox  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at filmreporter.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmreporter.de  
  4. ↑ The blue fox at prisma.de
  5. ↑ The blue fox. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used