One night on the Danube
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | One night on the Danube |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without information |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Boese |
| script |
Hanns Marshal Hans Gustl Kernmayr |
| production | Cicero movie |
| music |
Paul Hühn Willy Engel-Berger |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Margarete Steinborn |
| occupation | |
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A night on the Danube is a German film comedy of director Carl Boese from the year 1935th
action
Austria-Hungary in the 19th century.
Wolfgang von Derlingen, son of the Princess von Derlingen, is a failed musician. But the Derlingen house, to which he belongs, urgently needs money. His mother has a plan: he should marry the young Hungarian baroness von Szobody. Wolfgang initially discusses this marriage project and travels by ship with his tutor Dr. Lerch went to Hungary to the Szobody family estate. However, during the trip he met the musician Steffi Eidinger, with whom he fell in love immediately. She is on her way to Budapest with her band “Donauschwalben”, where they are engaged. Your band is also said to play on board the ship to entertain the passengers. But the pianist Poldi is late and misses the ship's departure. Steffi already knows Wolfgang from a scandalous concert that Wolfgang conducted. But she realizes that there is a great musician in Wolfgang and therefore asks him to replace the pianist on board. Wolfgang hesitates at first, but then accepts. He enjoys playing with the band and he and Steffi get a little closer that same evening.
The next morning, however, Wolfgang realizes that he has to forget Steffi. What he does not suspect is that Baroness Ilonka loves someone completely different, namely the son of the innkeeper Török. Wolfgang and Ilonka are introduced to each other, but both do not love each other. The Baroness von Szobody tries everything to bring the two together. In the evening Wolfgang secretly drives to Budapest to the Török restaurant, where the Danube swallows perform. Steffi recognizes him immediately and they spend a nice evening. The Baroness von Szobody immediately noticed that Wolfgang was gone and followed him with Dr. Lerch to Budapest. There they meet Wolfgang and Steffi, the baroness explains to Steffi that Wolfgang should marry her daughter Ilonka. Steffi is devastated and Wolfgang returns to the baroness.
The baroness and Wolfgang play a happy couple for the baroness and go to Budapest together. Here Ilonka meets her lover Josci, son of the innkeeper Török, and Wolfgang meets Steffi, who does not want to know anything about him. On the same evening, the Princess von Derlingen, the Baroness Szobody and Dr. Lerch surprise Wolfgang and Ilonka in Budapest. When they arrive, they notice that things are not going well there. They realize that the marriage project has failed because Wolfgang and Steffi have found each other again and Ilonka is also overjoyed with her Josci. The princess then faints. At the end of the film, the innkeeper Török asks the baroness that his son Ilonka can marry, she agrees.
Production notes
The outdoor recordings took place on the Danube in Vienna and Budapest as well as in the Puszta . The film passed censorship on November 22, 1935 and premiered on December 13 of the same year.
See also
Web links
- A night on the Danube in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A night on the Danube at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. also table of contents in the illustrated Film-Kurier No. 1270
- ^ A night on the Danube. Retrieved March 16, 2016 .