A song goes around the world (1933)

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Movie
Original title A song goes around the world
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Oswald
script Heinz Goldberg
Ernst Neubach
production Richard Oswald
music Hans May
camera Reimar Kuntze
cut Friedel Buckow
occupation

A song goes around the world is a German feature film from 1933.

action

The film is set in Venice . Ricardo is an unknown tenor . Rigo works as a music clown. They share an apartment together. The unemployed tenor Ricardo sees little chance of getting involved in the opera and now wants to work in the radio . Here too his efforts seem to be unsuccessful. But Ricardo doesn't give up and just begins to sing. The radio staff are enthusiastic, he is hired and his programs make him famous. The first records appear and Rigo becomes better known as a duo together with Ricardo. In a record store, Ricardo meets the saleswoman Nina, who is only in love with his voice. Ricardo is unhappily in love and his grief grows bigger when he realizes that Rigo has won Nina's heart. The friendship between the two men breaks and Ricardo no longer wants to perform with Rigo. So Rigo tries it alone, but the audience awaits Ricardo's singing. Ricardo finally decides to save the performance of the rival and still sing. The friendship of the two is saved. Ricardo stays with his singing and Rigo with Nina.

background

The film premiered on May 9, 1933 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin , which was enthusiastically celebrated by 3,000 visitors - on the eve of the book burning . Joseph Goebbels , who adored Schmidt and therefore actually wanted to appoint him an "honorary aryan", was among the premiere guests . In the course of the events of May 10th, Joseph Schmidt fled Germany - one day after the premiere. Director Richard Oswald also left Germany after the premiere and, like Schmidt, made other films in Austria.

In 1934 an English version was created in England under the title My Song Goes Round the World , also directed by Oswalds and starring Joseph Schmidt and Charlotte Ander.

The film was banned on October 1, 1937 by the film inspection agency.

In 1958, directed by Géza von Bolváry, the film A Song Goes Around the World (The Joseph Schmidt Story) with Hans Reiser in the lead role was made.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The time 1994 about Joseph Schmidt
  2. ↑ Censorship decision ( Memento of September 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 57 kB)