The white dream
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The white dream |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6, originally 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Géza from Cziffra |
| production | Vienna film ( Karl Hartl ) |
| music | Anton Profes |
| camera |
Hans Schneeberger Sepp Ketterer |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
| occupation | |
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The White Dream is a German revue film by director Géza von Cziffra under the artistic direction of Karl Hartl from 1943. The main roles are occupied by Olly Holzmann and Wolf Albach-Retty .
action
The young figure skating talent Liesl happened to get a role in a new revue at the Palast Theater due to a mix-up. This role was actually intended for Lu Panther, the untalented friend of the theater owner Wildner.
After various mishaps, Wildner has the theater closed before the premiere. But head of equipment, Ernst Eder, simply moved the performance to Liesl's uncle's ice rink. The current ice revue begins with the Vienna Prater as a background and the melody Buy yourself a colorful balloon . As part of a fairy tale picture, Spain is then celebrated with the song Come to the Land of My Sehnsucht, Come to Spain , Hungary with the song Play on Your Fiddle and a night club with a jazz orchestra with the title Yes, the rhythm on the ice. The performance was a huge success, and of course Ernst and Liesl also got together.
Songs
The Foxtrot Buy yourself a colorful balloon based on the melody by Anton Profes and the text by Aldo von Pinelli became particularly popular . Olly Holzmann's singing voice comes from Alda Noni . Other film songs are How beautiful the world would be for me today and I am the Prater-Mizzi .
Production and Background
The shooting took place in Vienna , the choreography was done by Hedy Pfundmayr . Since there was no ice revue at that time, the girls were recruited at Vienna's ice rinks and trained for weeks by the figure skater Willy Petter , who was officially not allowed to work because the allegation was in the room that he was not purely Aryan. The film was not a perseverance film, which was the reason that Karl Hartl had to deal with the Reichsfilmdramaturgen for weeks in order to even get a filming permit. Theodor Danegger , who played a leading role, is not mentioned in the opening credits, as he was arrested at the end of the shooting for violating § 175 . The scenes filmed with him have been removed from the original final version.
The film premiered on October 5, 1943 in Vienna and on November 10, 1943 in Berlin .
The film was one of the most successful films of the National Socialist era . According to the director, it is said to have grossed 35 million marks by the end of the war and become the greatest public and financial success in the history of black and white film.
In 1960, Géza von Cziffra shot the remake Buy You A Colorful Balloon .
Reviews
As with various other successful German entertainment films during the Second World War, there were different views after the war as to whether a film like this was more system-stabilizing or system-remote. Karsten Witte saw him in We dance around the world 1979 as a typical distraction film from the war events of the time: “ The entertainer in the ice rink advises his audience to heat with laughter instead of coals. Here the film industry gives advice in the white nightmare: the winter of Stalingrad. "
Director Géza von Cziffra, on the other hand, pointed out in his autobiography Kauf 'Dir eine Bunte Luftballon 1975 that Karl Hartl, production manager at Wien-Film and artistic director , had to fight for weeks with the Reich dramaturge for approval of the material, since Goebbels was precisely at this time "More reflection on the spirit of the times, clear statements and no cowardly flight into the past " demanded from Wien-Film .
The Catholic Film Service came to an appreciative verdict and wrote that The White Dream was " a staging and choreographically remarkable revue film with a brisk but incidental comedy that offers considerable entertainment in lavish equipment ", but admitted that it was a " Piece of German dream cinema with an emphatic exclusion of any reference to reality. "
Award
The white dream received the rating "artistically valuable" by the National Socialist Berlin Film Inspection Agency .
See also
Web links
- The white dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The white dream at filmportal.de
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- ↑ a b c Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 , volume: born in 1943, 1944 and 1945. 2nd edition. Publisher Medium Film Wendtland, Berlin (Lankwitz) 1989, ISBN 3-926945-05-2 , pp. 51, 52.
- ↑ Manfred Hobsch : love, dance and 1000 hit films. An illustrated encyclopedia - with all of the German hit films from 1930 to today. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-166-4 , p. 107.
- ↑ The white dream at kabeleins.de, accessed on October 31, 2015.