You are music

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Movie
Original title You are music
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Paul Martin
script Tibor Yost ,
Paul Martin,
Johann von Vásáry ,
Hans Rameau
production Artur Brauner
for CCC-Film
music Heinz Gietz
camera Georg Bruckbauer
cut Jutta Hering ,
Hermann Haller
occupation

Du bist Musik is a German revue film by Paul Martin from 1956. Caterina Valente plays the successful artist Marina Rosario, whom the unknown composer Paul Heiden, embodied by Paul Hubschmid , is determined to win over for his new revue. Grethe Weiser , Rudolf Platte and Ruth Stephan are cast in leading roles .

action

The penniless composer Paul Heiden has already sent the famous singer and dancer Marina Rosario his new revue twice, but the envelope was always returned unopened. When the third attempt also fails, Paul borrows money from his friend Rudi and seeks Marina in Spain . He is not even allowed to see her and later throws his grades down a slope in frustration. He falls badly when trying to get the leaves back.

When he woke up from the swoon, he found himself in the royal palace of Montania, after all, he was killed for the missing King Otto III. who has been on an excavation tour in Egypt for six months . Paul uses the chance and lets Marina come to Montania with her troupe to give a guest performance. Rudi is also brought to court. Rehearsals begin and Paul and Marina slowly get closer.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has learned from Paul's doctor that he cannot be the right king because he lacks a characteristic scar. Montania, on the other hand, would fall to Spain as soon as the dwarf state is without a ladder, which would mean tax payments for all 2000 inhabitants. Therefore, the country's politicians want to cover up the doppelganger, but the doctor turns to the Iberian ambassador, who wants proof of the king's authenticity. However, since this has come back in the meantime, the evidence can be provided. It becomes tangled because Paul Marina wants to confess that he is not a real king, but she found out about this before he confessed and now suspects him to be a con man. The real king, in turn, takes a liking to Marina, wants to marry her and also have Paul's revue performed in order to avoid a scandal - although Marina refuses to associate the revue with Paul, as it doesn't want to serve as a stepping stone to success for him.

Paul travels back to Munich and watches the revue on television. In several phone calls between the individual numbers, Paul and Marina reconcile, who finally announces that he is the composer of all pieces. The king realizes that this means his betrothal to Marina and accepts it. At the end, Marina sings in a wedding dress You are music and kisses Paul as he comes out of the TV screen.

Production, publication

Palma Cathedral, where the film was set

The shooting took place from June 24, 1956 to July 1956 in the CCC Studios Berlin-Spandau . Exterior scenes were created on Palma , with the exterior scenes of the royal palace being filmed at the cathedral of Palma . The film structures were in the hands of Helmut Nentwig and Albrecht Hennings , while Maria Brauner was responsible for the cloakroom.

Various hits can be heard in the film, sung by Caterina Valente: You are music , This is music for me , I knew that straight away , Daisy Crazy , Tschi Bam and Not Afraid of Love . The lyrics are from Kurt Feltz .

You can also hear the tracks Nefertiti , Pirate Dance and Flamenco Boogie , which are presented in a dance by Caterina Valente, Silvio Francesco , Billy Daniel, Tommy Albertus, Robert Stevenson and Gerhard Nel. The Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra plays .

You are music had its premiere on September 21, 1956 in Essen's Lichtburg ; the premiere of the film took place on February 4, 1956 in Denmark. In 1957 the film was released in the Netherlands and Sweden, in 1958 in Portugal and Finland. He could also be seen in Brazil, Spain, France, Greece and Italy. The DDF 1 beamed the film the first time on 23 November 1963 from the Federal Republic of Germany, he was the first time the transmitter August 29, 1989 3sat to see.

The film is part of the DVD “Memories of Caterina Valente” released by Universum Film GmbH on October 6, 2017; UFA Home Entertainment released it as a single film in October 2006 under the heading “Wirtschaftswunder Kino”.

criticism

The lexicon of international films described you are music as a “hit of the times in a successful comedy about Caterina Valente”.

For Kino.de , the film was one of “the countless Artur Brauner stenciled productions: first no love and no success, then love and success. Result: happy ending ”. The talk was of a "shallow hit comedy" in which Caterina Valene was the "focal point", and with "charm and a good voice elegantly circumnavigated every shoal of the shallow script".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memories of Caterina Valente Fig. DVD case Universum Film
  2. ↑ You are music Fig. DVD case Wirtschaftswunder Kino
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films, Volume 2 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, p. 761, ISBN 3-499-16322-5 .
  4. ↑ You are music sS kino.de. Retrieved October 29, 2018.