This song stays with you
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | This song stays with you |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 104, 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Willi Forst |
| script |
Johannes Mario Simmel Willi Forst |
| production | Carlton-Film GmbH, Munich ( Günther Stapenhorst ) |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Lilian Seng |
| occupation | |
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This song stays with you , also known under the working title cabaret , a German feature film from the year 1954. Among directed by Willi Forst played Paul Henreid his only German-language film starring role.
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Conrad Regner is a celebrated composer of catchy hits in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century . Regner supplies the songs required for the programs and conferences for Fritz Grünwald's cabaret “Faun”. Conrad cultivates his reputation as a Casanova and womanizer through numerous, changing relationships. One day, the serious ranger meets the very young choir singer Leonie Lerch. Both fall in love, but Leonie is still engaged to the aspiring physicist Karl Haller. When Karl was discovered by Albert Einstein and called to Berlin, Conrad had free rein with Leonie, and they both married a little later. But Conrad can't leave other women and quickly falls back into his old role behavior. Even the seductive Trixie Hell soubrette soon succumbs to its charm. When Leonie finds out that Conrad is cheating on her, she leaves him and first returns to Karl.
Then the First World War breaks out and Conrad volunteers for the front. Leonie, meanwhile, has not been able to forget Conrad and follows him with a front theater troupe. This is where reconciliation finally takes place. At the front they hug each other. When a grenade explodes and a ceiling falls on her, Leonie is badly wounded. She dies in Conrad's arms. Regner needed many years, during which he made his way as a pianist in a third-class suburban cinema after the war, in order to recover from this heavy loss. Only after a long time does he find a woman he can love again.
Production notes
The film was made without external shots in the Bavaria Film studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig and in the Carlton studio on Tulbeckstrasse. The strip, which was produced from January 1954, is particularly important because it is the only post-war German-language production with Hollywood star Paul Henreid ( Casablanca ). This song stays with you passed the voluntary self-regulation test on April 13, 1954 and had its world premiere two days later in Frankfurt am Main. The Viennese premiere was on April 17, 1954. In Berlin, the film could be seen for the first time on May 24, 1954. The TV first broadcast was on August 21, 1961 on ARD .
The production costs amounted to around 1.3 million DM. With this, Forst had exceeded the budget estimated by producer Günther Stapenhorst by around 280,000 DM. The working title of the film was initially cabaret . Shortly before the premiere, however, the decision was made for the title This song stays with you , but the strip was shown on various occasions in some movie theaters under cabaret . The poor box office results led to considerable cuts after the premiere in order to make the film appear less lengthy. The ending was changed to a happy ending.
Otto Lehmann was the production manager, Herbert Sennewald the production manager. Werner Schlichting and Willi Schatz created the buildings . Hannes Staudinger was involved in the production as a simple cameraman. Theo Nischwitz took care of the optical special effects. Heinz Terworth was a sound engineer.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "This (...) amorous Viennese time and milieu picture is prepared in the right mixture of action, atmosphere and sentiment with tried, but also for the first time proven actors, has dialog nuances and mood, which is not least of the melodies of this (equipment well characterized) time-using music. "
“The expectations, which were raised by an intensive press campaign adorned with advance praise, had to be disappointed by the mediocre product. "Cabaret" - critics and audience had expected something different from this than a macaroni-like stretched two-person story by a Viennese piano composer and his blond interpreter. "Some were so presumptuous", wrote the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", "to expect something like a cultural-historical outline, with excerpts from the activities of the Woliehen, Roda Roda and Otto Reutter . They were disappointed because they had the 'Symbolist' Forst underestimated, who tries the old names of literary cabaret in a promising beginning, but then slips hopelessly into the realm of the so-called light muse ... It would be time for Forst to get rid of his frill, feather boa and waltz complex. "“
“Emotional drama, noticeably influenced by Hollywood melodrama. The Austrian émigré Paul Henreid ("Casablanca", " Clara Schumann's great love ") played his only post-war role here in Europe, the script was written by the later bestselling author Johannes Mario Simmel. "
Web links
- This song stays with you in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- This song stays with you at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The original length was around 2800 meters. After the premiere, the film was cut down by almost 400 meters for commercial reasons, so that it was now barely an hour and a half long
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 404
- ↑ cf. Der Spiegel, 20/1954, p. 28
- ↑ Cabaret on spiegel.de
- ↑ Cabaret in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ This song stays with you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
