The GmbH tenor

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Movie
Original title The GmbH tenor
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1916
Rod
Director Ernst Lubitsch
production Paul Davidson
for projection group "Union"
camera Theodor Sparkuhl
occupation

The GmbH-Tenor is a German silent film in four acts by Ernst Lubitsch from 1916. It is one of the director's films that have been lost today .

content

Sally comes to Berlin from a small town , where he begins training with his uncle. He helps his uncle produce bread and dreams of becoming a famous tenor. One day he will be discovered.

A group of wealthy gentlemen form a GmbH and finance Sally's singing lessons. The day will come, eventually in to the Sally opera to Lohengrin allowed to sing. His success is prevented by his greatest rival and envious, who sprinkles itching powder on his costume shortly before the performance . Sally returns to his uncle's company, where he finds comfort in his cousin.

production

The film was shot in the Ufa-Union-Filmstudios , Berlin-Tempelhof . The buildings came from Kurt Richter.

The censorship examination took place in August 1916. The premiere of the film was on December 22, 1916 in the UT Friedrichstrasse, the UT Unter den Linden and the Kammerlichtspiele Berlin.

The GmbH tenor was one of a series of films in which the figure of Sally portrayed by Lubitsch appears. Often, for example, this figure came as a small apprentice from a small town to a large city and subsequently rose socially. Examples are 1916 Schuhpalast Pinkus with Lubitsch as Sally Pinkus and 1917 Der Blousenkönig with Lubitsch as Sally Katz. Further figures with the name Sally , which are represented by Lubitsch, can be found in 1918 in Der Rodelkavalier (Sally Pinner), Der Fall Rosentopf (Sally) and Meyer from Berlin (Sally Meyer).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Sabine Hake: Passions and deceptions. The early films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1992, ISBN 0-691-00878-7 , p. 27.