The yellow nightingale (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The yellow nightingale |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Franz Josef Gottlieb |
| production | Neue Thalia-Film GmbH on behalf of ORF and ZDF |
| music | Johannes Fehring using Die Julischka from Budapest from the operetta Mask in Blue |
| camera | Götz Neumann |
| cut |
Erika Geiger Karin Glanz |
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The Yellow Nightingale is an Austrian-German television film made in 1974 by Franz Antel with Curd Jürgens and Dagmar Koller in the leading roles. The story is based on the work of the same name by Hermann Bahr .
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Vienna, in the 1920s. Fanny Hobichler can dance, sing and act. She really wants to go to the theater, but so far she has not had a chance to prove her talent. Again and again someone with less talent snatches an interesting role from under her nose. When the capricious singer Serena Villon does not want to appear on stage after an argument with her lover, Fanny's big moment has come: she is finally allowed to play theater and sing too! In order to make it really big, however, Fanny absolutely wants to audition for theater director Jason, who is, however, shielded because otherwise some young talent would constantly besiege him.
Meanwhile, Jason's big star, the celebrated actor Albert Korz, is being courted from all sides. To keep him happy, Jason tries to persuade the Minister present at a reception to give Korz a medal soon. Jason himself can tie Korz to his stage for another two years through a trick. Actor Albert Korz was once a childhood friend of Fanny's father, which the young actress knows how to use. Fanny secretly sneaks into his villa and refreshes the memory of yesteryear. She makes it clear to Korz that she would like his help to make a career on stage. He is astonished that she had already sung to Jason and was quickly dispatched by him. Because, Korz realizes immediately, the young woman is a great singer. Since he still has a chick to pick with Jason due to the contract extension that was not previously agreed with him and announced coram publico, Korz wants to use a trick to persuade the theater director to sign Fanny as well.
Korz and Fanny withdraw to an idyllic Mediterranean island and lure Jason with the fact that Korz is harboring a mysterious stranger there who needs all his time, so that he is not available for new contract negotiations. Of course, this makes Jason so curious that he immediately sets off from Vienna towards the south. For the remaining time until Jason's arrival, Korz wants to make Fanny a Japanese woman. When Jason arrives on the island, he believes that his star Korz is having a PR affair with a teenage princess. Instead, Korz lets it be seen that his mysterious guest is the Japanese artist Nasa, who as “The Yellow Nightingale” is already a big star in East Asia. Korz Jason soon made the wrong Japanese woman so interesting that the theater director absolutely wants to sign “Nasa” and make it his top female star. In Japanese disguise, Fanny immediately signs a new, well-endowed contract. Things become more complicated when the princess, who is also on the island, confesses to her aunt, Countess Tran, that she has fallen in love with Korz. With his new acquisition “Nasa” in tow, Jason is returning to Vienna with Fanny.
While Korz and the princess are talking, Fanny alias Nasa is celebrating great triumphs in “Japanese” roles at home in Vienna. Meanwhile, Albert Korz is gradually being forgotten, as Jason doesn't need more than one (expensive) star on his stage at all. Fanny is disappointed that Korz did not visit her once in a performance. The almost forgotten theater star in turn assumes Fanny cowardice, because she no longer dares to step out of the "NASA" role and stand by her real self, Fanny Hobichler. Fanny realizes that Korz is right and now wants to reveal her true identity. Given this decision, Jason desperately wants to see Fanny in the next performance. Fanny's first appearance without an Asian disguise is a complete success, so Jason now also wants Fanny as Fanny Hobichler. There is a final argument between Korz and Fanny. Then you agree. Jason is lucky to have signed two new stars with immediate effect.
Production notes
The yellow nightingale , Antel's first production for television, was created in 1974 in Vienna and on the Mediterranean Sea and was broadcast for the first time on March 31, 1975 simultaneously on ORF and ZDF.
Wolfgang Odelga was the production manager. Gene Reed was responsible for the choreography. Rolf Schmidt-Gentner was responsible for the sound . The film was built by Rudolf Schneider Manns-Au, the costumes were designed by Edith Almoslino.
Reviews
The film service says: "Lightweight, prominent musical comedy, set in Vienna in the 1920s."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The yellow nightingale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 26, 2019 .
Web links
- The yellow nightingale in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The yellow nightingale at filmportal.de