the woman of my dreams

Movie
Original title	the woman of my dreams
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1944
length	99 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Georg Jacoby
script	Johann von Vaszary Georg Jacoby
production	UFA , manufacturing group Georg Jacoby
music	Franz Grothe
camera	Constantine Cheet
cut	Erich Kobler
occupation
Marika Rökk : Revue star Julia Köster Wolfgang Lukschy : Chief Engineer Peter Groll Walter Müller : Engineer Erwin Forster Georg Alexander : theater director Grethe Weiser : Jungfer Luise Inge Drexel : Resi village girl Valentin Froman : Julia's dance partner Willy Schulte-Vogelheim : Julia's dance partner Egon Vogel : Reporter Erna Krüger : usher in the revue theater Karin Lüsebrink : cashier of the revue theater Lotte Spira : canteen landlady Vera Witt : Julia's cloakroom girl Mariechen Erwin Fichtner : Lodge guest with monocle Julius Brandt : Traveler in the sleeping car compartment Karl Etlinger : Head waiter in the station restaurant Karl Hannemann : Porter at the train station Victor Janson : Local guest Fritz Lafontaine : theater manager Gustav Püttjer : Demolition Manager at Grudge Connie Hansen : usher Hans Stiebner : Train traveler Jakob Tiedtke : Old man at the box office Herbert Weißbach : Sleeping Car Controller Ewald Wenck : stage porter Walter Bechmann Egon Brosig Johanna Ewald Walter Steinweg

The woman of my dreams is a German music film by Georg Jacoby from 1944.

action

Julia Köster is a celebrated revue star, but finally wants to go on vacation. When the theater director is already planning her for the next revue right after a performance, Julia rushes to the train station in a petticoat and fur coat. Since the theater director wants to get her to stay, he has Julia's girl Luise fetch all the suitcases from the train. Julia drives off into the mountains anyway. When she not only notices that her suitcase is missing, but that her compartment has also been given away, she gets off at the next stop of the train - and stands alone on an icy winter night, as the train has only stopped briefly on the open route for construction work. The nearest train station is 20 kilometers away, but there are huts in the mountainous landscape in the distance. Julia is on her way. When parts of the mountain are suddenly blown up, she calls for help and passes out with excitement.

The engineers Peter and Erwin hear their calls and take them into the warmth. Erwin has just heard a song by Julia on the radio and raves about the woman he does not know. The down-to-earth Peter rejects extravagant women and sees Julia only as a temporary guest. She comes to and wants to be taken to the next train station immediately. However, the streets are icy and so both men put them off for the next morning. In a second unobserved, Julia runs away and drives off with Peter's motorcycle, but causes an accident and returns ruefully. She phoned Luise to bring her things to the next train station, but the theater director overheard and joined Luise. Julia's plan to be driven to the train station on a motorcycle the next morning fails due to a broken spark plug , but Julia likes the situation and the dismissive Peter. She has long since found out from Erwin, who is in love with her, that Peter rejects extravagant women, that the revue star Julia Köster has no business and that such singing stars could never be at home. Julia wants to convince him of the opposite. She tries to make him jealous by flirting with Erwin. When Erwin becomes intrusive, she saves herself, crying, to Peter, who is suddenly friendly to her. From now on she takes care of his household, cooks for him and they both get closer. Just as Julia is starting to imagine a future together with Peter, Luise and the theater director appear in the mountains. Julia's identity is revealed and Julia explains to the director that she wants to take leave of the stage as she is getting married. However, Peter feels lied to by Julia and turns away from her. So in the end Julia decided to appear in the theater director's new revue, which will be called The Woman of My Dreams .

Erwin and Peter also appear at the premiere. Peter wants to visit Julia in her cloakroom during the break and is accidentally locked in the empty room. The revue ends with a grand finale and is a complete success. After the performance, Julia finds Peter in her dressing room and reacts indignantly. When asked if she loved him, she replied "no". He confesses his love to her and leaves. She hurries after him and catches up with him in front of the theater. She, too, now confesses to him that she loves him, and they both embrace - much to the enthusiasm of the premiere audience, which breaks out in applause.

production

The Woman of My Dreams was shot from March 9th to September 25th, 1943 in Carinthia , in the Ufa studios in Berlin-Tempelhof and mostly in Potsdam-Babelsberg, today's Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam . After women are better diplomats, the film was the second color film that Marika Rökk made. During the filming, she discovered that she was pregnant. In her autobiography Herz mit Paprika , she describes the turbulent filming between binge eating and pregnancy sickness. “I vomited every day for nine months, I felt shattered. [...] My eyes got red veins - a small disaster with a color film. [...] What is certain is that I was no longer a 'dream woman' with the woman of my dreams . But what helped: I played one. ”Daughter Gabriele Jacoby was finally born in April 1944. Necessary re-shoots could therefore be made from April 1944. The film finally had its premiere on August 25, 1944 in the Berlin Marble House and in the Germania Palace on Frankfurter Allee.

Various hits can be heard in the film , sung by Marika Rökk, Valentin Froman and Walter Müller : At night, people don't like to be alone , don't worry , everything is still like a dream for me and I wait for you . At that time, The Woman of My Dreams was considered "the most expensive, most lavish European color revue film at the time".

criticism

The critics wrote that the storyline "embodies the amorous, entertaining character of Viennese films with pleasantly simple means", while the revue performances "reveal the lush style of pompous UFA films".

"Franz Grothes indestructible hits, comical batches and the passable, lavish choreography enliven a revue film that shows Marika Rökk at the height of her career," said the film-dienst .

Cinema found: “Thanks to the noble equipment and Grethe Weiser as a funny supporting character, it can still be seen. Conclusion: Colorful Ufa spectacle from dark times ”.

The Protestant Film Observer came to the following conclusion: "A formerly very successful revue film with Marika Rökk, the excavation of which is not really worthwhile, but which is no less entertaining than a newer slapstick film."

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

literature

• The woman of my dreams . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, pp. 110-111.

Web links

• The woman of my dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The woman of my dreams at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Woman of My Dreams . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 31 379 V / DVD).
2. ↑ Marika Rökk: Heart with paprika. Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, pp. 168, 170.
3. ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1982, pp. 256 ( online ).
4. ↑ Neuer Zürcher Zeitung 1950, quoted in based on: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hits . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 111.
5. ↑ The woman of my dreams. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
6. ↑ See cinema.de
7. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 271/1958