Long live love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Long live love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Engel |
| script |
Walter Wassermann Lotte Neumann as CH Diller |
| production | Bavaria Filmkunst , HG Fred Lyssa |
| music | Peter Kreuder |
| camera | Erich Claunigk |
| cut | Friedel Buckow |
| occupation | |
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Long live love is a German revue film by Erich Engel from 1944 .
action
Tenor Manfred Richter is the star of Director Hanke's Apollo Theater in Berlin. The director plans a new revue with Manfred in the lead role, but rejects all proposed stage partners. While filming in Barcelona he sees the Spaniard Manuela del Orta dancing and singing and is enthusiastic and a little in love. He spontaneously signs a contract behind the stage and hires Manuela together with her ballet master Hofer for the revue in Berlin. Both should follow suit and director Hanke is also satisfied with Manfred's choice, as a record shows that Manuela can sing. A few weeks before the revue premiere, Manuela cancels her participation in the revue because she is ill and the doctor has banned her from singing for a year. The blonde Fritzi is now hired as the main actress and the revue proves to be a great success.
A year later Manuela del Orta comes to Berlin. She is not allowed to sing for another six months, but wants to try her luck as a dancer under her real name Maria Marten. In her hotel she meets Manfred, who thinks she is one of his admirers and recommends her as a dancer to director Hanke. Maria dances and is hired as a choir girl. Now she starts all over again, but with her self-confidence manages to wrest Manfred's respect for the work of the choir girls. He learns to call each one by name and is slapped when he takes Maria by the bottom. After a few small disputes, the first rendezvous takes place and Manfred Maria soon proposes marriage. He wants a comfortable, solid marriage, even if after all this time he is still in love with Manuela, who has been swallowed up by the earth. Maria agrees to the marriage and plans to play the honest wife for him.
The marriage is solid and the womanizer Manfred is increasingly becoming a slippery hero . Maria, however, wants to be on stage again as Manuela del Orta and secretly practices for days with her trainer Hofer. She invests the money Manfred gives her for clothes and jewelry and instead gradually introduces the jewelry into the family that she already owns as Manuela del Orta, after all, she is actually a wealthy woman. Manfred, on the other hand, suspects that something is wrong with Maria, a jeweler stated that he did not know the jewelry that Maria supposedly bought from him. When the news that the new revue is to be filled with Manuela del Orta, Manfred reacts again ambiguously, fearing that Maria will react jealously. He is all the more disillusioned when Maria doesn't seem to care about the news.
However, new press photos from Manuela del Orta make it clear to Manfred that Maria and Manuela are one person: Both wear the same valuable jewelry. Manfred keeps his discovery to himself and even pretends to Maria that Manuela is actually not attractive enough for the revue after all, because she has increased in the photos. Director Hanke, however, says that Manuela should definitely be his stage partner. Fritzi, in turn, believes she will now be the new star at Manfred's side and flirts with him shortly before the 500th performance of the joint success revue. Maria throws her out of the cloakroom and leaves the theater furious. Director Hanke is desperate, but instead of Fritzi, Maria suddenly appears on stage wearing Manuela and the revue is a great success. Director Hanke does not recognize her at first and is stunned when the surprise singer turns out to be Manuela and Maria. When the curtain falls, Maria and Manfred kiss and it comes to a happy ending.
production
Long live love is based on the novel Das Rätsel Manuela by Anna Elisabeth Weirauch . The film was shot in the Hostiwar studios in Prague from August 30th to mid-November 1943 . It had its premiere on May 24, 1944 in Munich .
Various songs can be heard in the film, which Peter Kreuder composed and for which Hans Fritz Beckmann wrote the lyrics:
- My heart should be a radio station
- On all my ways, you come to meet me
- A star has fallen from the sky
The production costs were a little over 2 million RM.
criticism
For the film-dienst , Es lebe die Liebe was "a purposefully unrealistic comedy revue from the war year 1944 with lively audience favorites."
“Real forties,” said Cinema .
See also
Web links
- Long Live Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Long live love at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Long live love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de