The Dubarry (1951)

Movie
Original title	The Dubarry
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1951
length	99 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Georg Wildhagen
script	Franz Gribitz Georg Wildhagen
production	Standard Film, Hamburg ( Franz Tapper ) Fama-Film, Hamburg ( Friedrich A. Mainz )
music	Theo Mackeben based on melodies by Carl Millöcker
camera	Willy Winterstein
cut	Alice Ludwig
occupation
Sári Barabás : Jeanne Fabiani / Dubarry Willy Fritsch : Louis Valmont Albert Lieven : Alfred Collien Walter Müller : Caesar Schnepf Eva-Ingeborg Scholz : Kitty Lenz Inge Meysel : Charlotte Adrian Loni Heuser : Lola Violetta Madelon Truß : Fifi, photo model Hubert von Meyerinck : Stranitzky Ernst Waldow : Erban, theater director Fritz Imhoff : Schaubitzer, theater agent Carl-Heinz Schroth : Sharlakan Joachim Teege : Alphonse Meyer, photographer Mathieu Ahlersmeyer : King

Dubarry is a German operetta film from 1951 that has been relocated to the present and directed by Georg Wildhagen . It is loosely based on the operetta of the same name by composer Carl Millöcker from 1879.

action

Jeanne Fabiani is a celebrated singer as Madame Dubarry, whose career was supported by a generous sponsor. When a critic complains that she lacks any heart tones, she wants to prove that she can become a big star again without outside help and starts all over again. She changes her name, changes her appearance and starts as a little singer again. In the process, she falls in love with a supposedly poor young man, who is, however, a major automobile manufacturer and is secretly promoting her career. Now she is coming back to the top as Dubarry, and love has made her a perfect artist, which means that all critics are converted.

Production notes

Filming began in August 1951. The studio in Hamburg-Wandsbek served as the studio , while the exterior shots were taken in Hamburg. Reinhold Schünzel was also involved in the directing work without being mentioned as a co-director. Willi A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann were responsible for the buildings . The premiere took place on November 30, 1951 in the Hahnentor-Lichtspiele in Cologne.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film judges: "Millöcker's folk melodies make the somewhat clumsy performances of the singer-actors in the film by the DEFA specialist for music films, Wildhagen, a decent entertainment."

literature

• Alfred Bauer : German Feature Film Almanach, Vol. 2: 1946–1955. A guide through the German-language film production of the first 10 post-war years in the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, Austria and Switzerland . Filmbuchverlag Winterberg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-921612-01-2
• Jörg Schöning: Reinhold Schünzel , in CineGraph - Lexikon zum Deutschsprachigen Film , Lg. 6, 1986

Web links

• The Dubarry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Dubarry at filmportal.de