Don Juan (1955)
Don Juan is an Austrian music film based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni , made in 1955 by Walter Kolm-Veltée with Cesare Danova , Josef Meinrad and Evelyn Cormand .
Walter Kolm-Veltée's film has shortened the plot not to an opera film, but to a "film opera". The actors follow a strict choreography , the rhythm of which strictly regulates not only the singing but also the movements. Many singing roles were filled with actors, and their singing roles were taken over by opera singers. The director wrote: “All the sound recordings will have to take place before shooting begins and the vocal expression has already been determined so precisely at this point that later, when the actors sing this part, the mood of the sung word corresponds to the acting requirements. So chamber singer Walter Berry had to succeed in putting those vibrations of expression into every part of his part as Leporello (Masetto!), Which Josef Meinrad needs many weeks later for his mimic performance on the day of shooting. "(Filmarchiv Austria)
Bernhard Paumgartner conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . The film was produced in the Soviet Zone of Vienna in the Rosenhügel Studios .
Actors and singers
- Cesare Danova as Don Giovanni
- Josef Meinrad as Leporello
- Evelyn Cormand as Zerlina
- Hans von Borsody as Masetto
- Lotte Tobisch as Donna Elvira
- Jean Vinci as Don Ottavio
- Marianne Schönauer as Donna Anna
- Fred Hennings as Commendatore
- Senta Wengraf as Elvira's maid
- Walter Berry as Masetto (singer)
- Anny Felbermayer as Zerlina / Donna Anna (singer)
- Gottlob Frick as Commendatore (singer)
- Helmut Krauss
- Hanna Löser as Donna Elvira (singer)
- Hugo Meyer-Welfing as Don Ottavio (singer)
- Alfred Poell as Don Giovanni (singer)
- Harald Pröglhöf as Leporello (singer)
supporting documents
literature
- John Davidson / Sabine Hake: Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany . Berghahn Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1845452049
Web links
- Don Juan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Don Juan (1955 film)