I loved you

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Movie
Original title I loved you
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1929
length 74 minutes
Rod
Director Rudolf Walther-Fein
script Walter Reisch
production Gabriel Levy for Aafa -Film AG Berlin
music Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
Eduard May
camera Frederik Fuglsang
Paul Holzki
cut Hans Conradi
occupation

You have I loved (reference Title: Only you have I loved ... ) is an early German sound film from 1929. Directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein took Mady Christians , Walter Jankuhn and Hans Stüwe the leading roles.

action

The singer Inge Lund celebrates a great triumph at a gala premiere of a new operetta. Overwhelmed by this success, Inge's stage partner Otto Radney urges herself and becomes her new lover after a few glasses of alcohol. But when she met the doctor a little later, Dr. Hubert Baumgart gets to know, she falls head over heels in love with him. They both get married and the singer gives up her stage career for his sake. But her newly wed husband soon has little time for her, and so Inge devotes herself to her little daughter Marie, known as Mariechen.

Inge misses her old life very much, the stage, the applause and the spotlight. And so one thing leads to another when one day Otto Radney visits her town. Due to an indiscretion from a jealous colleague, the rumor arises that Inge had renewed the relationship with her former lover. When her husband finds out, he demands a divorce. Mariechen is taken away from the supposedly adulterous mother and given to her father.

To make a living, Inge has to go back to work and tries to regain a foothold in her old job. But finding a new commitment proves to be extremely difficult. And it can no longer build on the old successes of yore. Inge's roles are getting smaller and smaller, and soon she disappears as a member of the choir. When she visits her ex-husband's town, Inge secretly visits the child Mariechen who has been confiscated from her. When Baumgart witnessed a moving scene between mother and child, it softens his heart and he seeks reconciliation with his ex-wife.

production

The film is of film-historical importance for one reason only: It is considered the first full-length sound film to be shot in Germany. Thus, unlike all full-length German sound films previously shot and performed in Germany, it is the first film in which all dialogues can be heard.

I loved you was premiered on November 22nd, 1929 in two Berlin cinemas

The monitoring of the Tobis Tri-Ergon sound process was carried out by sound specialist Dr. Guido Bagier . Karl Brodmerkel and Adolf Jansen made the sound recordings.

The title hit, the slow waltz I loved you , was composed by Eduard May , and the text was written by Bruno Balz . Walter Jankuhn, actor and tenor, recorded it for Odeon. Werner Schmidt-Boelcke wrote and conducted the illustration music .

Sound documents:

  • Thee have I loved . Lied and English Waltz (Ed. May - B. Balz) adgleichn. Sound film.
    • Harry Jackson's Dance Orchestra, Refraingesang Kurt Mühlhardt . Tri-Ergon TE5781 (Mat. 03210)
  • Thee have I loved . Lied and English Waltz (music: Ed. May, text: B. Balz) adgleichn. Sound film.
    • Walter Jankuhn, tenor with orchestral accompaniment. Odeon O-11 165 a (Matr. Be 8441). August 27, 1929

The Filmbauten created Botho Höfer , Hans Minzloff and Erich Czerwonski .

A French version of the film was also produced at the same time under the title Mon amour .

I loved you was a notable box office success and was therefore also interesting for the US market. There, in New York , it was launched on January 24, 1930 under the title Because I Loved You . There were further performances in the same year in the Netherlands , Bulgaria and Finland .

criticism

Contemporary critics did not treat the film graciously ("... even if the daily press is more than reluctant to praise it because it still misses the autonomy of the sound film and good sound technology"), as Oskar Kalbus in Vom Werden knew how to report German film art .

Karlheinz Wendtland felt the same way, who wrote: “This is the first one hundred percent sound film recorded in a German studio. The screenwriter Walter Reisch, who would later bring us some first-class sound films, had not yet reached full format. In addition to the lack of autonomy of the sound film, the audio reproduction also leaves a lot to be desired. ”Furthermore, Wendtland stated that the film had“ been a great success with the audience ”,“ although music and humor are not integrated into the film appear". Rather, the plot makes it clear "that the mentality at the time was [was] different from today, that [was] decisive". To put forward political reasons for this is "absurd". One could not ascribe to the action "pre-Nazi tendencies", because the author was Jewish.

For example, the Berlin stock exchange courier judged : “First impression of the sound reproduction: simply hideous, but then you gradually get used to it and in the end the plot has so captivated you that you even think the whole thing is really nice. It is of course annoying that the sound control did not think they should do without a discrete background music for the dialogue scenes. Furthermore, one notices that a number of vocal interludes are all too clearly inserted ad hoc, precisely because the film can now also sing. You notice the intention and you get disgruntled ... "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films. 1. Volume 1929/1930 , p. 44, Berlin a. Berchtesgaden 1988,
    names Edoardo Lamberti as the second cameraman
  2. ↑ I only loved you ... Film in picture No. 19
  3. ↑ I loved you at walter.jankuhn.2fix.de. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Audio sample at 2fix.de , there also a label .
  5. ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. Part 2: The sound film , p. 12, Berlin 1935
  6. ^ Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1929 and 1930, Medium Film Verlag Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, first edition 1988, second revised edition 1990, p. 14, film 3/1929. ISBN 3-926945-10-9
  7. ^ Berliner Börsen-Courier of November 24, 1929