Mrs. Luna (film)

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Movie
Original title Mrs. Luna
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1941
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Theo Lingen
script Ernst Marischka
production Christoph Mülleneisen junior
Franz Tapper
for Majestic-Film (Berlin)
music Paul Chicken
camera Ekkehard Kyrath
cut Ella Ensink
occupation

Frau Luna is a German feature film from 1941 using the melodies from the operetta of the same name by Paul Lincke . The operetta singer Lizzi Waldmüller played the leading role under the direction of Theo Lingen .

action

New Year's Eve 1900. The dress rehearsal of Lincke's operetta “Frau Luna” takes place in Berlin's Apollo Theater. Berlin's police advisor Haschke bumps into the women's light costumes, which he finds too daring and too frivolous and which are likely to cause public nuisance. The premiere is banned, Haschke confiscates the costume drawings and the leading actress faints melodramatically. The scandal is here! Director Knoppe orders the costumes to be "defused" immediately. But since this could be detrimental to the effect of the operetta, someone has the idea of ​​approaching the president of the influential Tusneldenbund, Mr. Lüdecke. It is Lüdecke's task to counteract moral brutality in imperial Berlin and to ensure that morality and decency are preserved in public. Since the strict man is said to have a closer acquaintance with Vera Waldner, the star of this operetta, he seems to be exactly the right man to solve the problem.

Meanwhile the publisher of the operetta, Paul Rüdinger, has completely different problems. Elisabeth Gerlach, the stepmother of his bride Gerda, creates a good mood against him because, as the Tusneldenbund whispers, he supposedly leads a vicious and immoral love life. He is even said to have a relationship with Vera. Gerda is not deterred by the talk and stands by her friend. He, in turn, does not want to see the performance of “Frau Luna” endangered and also makes contact with Lüdecke, with whom he is friends. The alleged moral post of Lüdecke confesses to him with a heavy heart that he too is by no means as morally strict as everyone thinks and that he pretends to be Paul Rüdinger on his love adventures. Lüdecke is in a difficult dilemma, the pressure on the Tusneldenbund chief is enormous. Because the influential privy councilor Schmidt has just made it clear to him that lifting the ban on “Frau Luna” would be proof that there must be something in the rumor of a liaison between him, Lüdecke, and the “morally reprehensible” operetta diva Vera .

But Vera Waldner also applies pressure. She wants to trumpet the alleged affair with him, should Lüdecke not advocate that the piece can finally be performed. Since this would definitely be the greater evil for the president of the Tusneldenbund, Lüdecke advocates the performance, but asks his friend Rüdinger to meet with Vera Waldner after the premiere so that Privy Councilor Schmidt can see that it is not he, Lüdecke, but actually Paul Rüdinger is the operetta star's jack of hearts. And so the premiere takes place. "Mrs. Luna" is a huge success. But through Rüdinger's fictitious rendezvous with Vera, Gerda again becomes restless and begins to doubt the honesty of her future husband. Eventually everything turns out for the better: Paul and Gerda stay together, and Lüdecke, who met and fell in love with Gerda's stepmother Elisabeth, becomes Paul's father-in-law.

Music numbers

The following songs are played or sung by Lizzi Waldmüller:

  • That's the Berlin air
  • A virgin's prayer
  • entry of the Gladiators
  • Firefly idyll
  • Don't hang your head
  • Take me with you, take me with you to your little room
  • O Theophil
  • Overture to "Frau Luna"
  • Give me a little love (sung by Theo Lingen and Ursula Herking)
  • Castles that lie in the moon

Production notes

Ms. Luna began shooting on April 5, 1941. The film was shot in early June 1941. The premiere was on July 22, 1941 in - depending on the sources - Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo or Marmorhaus .

The filming rights to Lincke's original were acquired in 1939 for 50,000 RM for an unlimited period. The production cost was about 1,418,000 RM.

Conrad Flockner was production manager. The film structures were created by Alfred Bütow and Heinrich Beisenherz , the costumes by Ilse Naumann. Ernst W. Kalinke served chief cinematographer Ekkehard Kyrath as his assistant.

After the Second World War, Ms. Luna first appeared on television (DFF 1) in Germany on January 26, 1955.

reception

“Not as romantic as the Viennese operettas (…), however, 'Frau Luna' was rich in melodies and opened the chain of Berlin local hits that became world-famous through the film. (...) The film had a good press and found a wide audience. "

- Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945. A complete overview. P. 465 f., Düsseldorf 1987

"Musical swing and the charm of Lizzi Waldmüller make the fluctuating farce enjoyable."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 18-year-old film debutante Hanne Lingen (later known as Hanne Hiob) was the stepdaughter of Theo Lingen and the biological daughter of the writer Bertolt Brecht, who had meanwhile emigrated to the USA
  2. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 11th year 1940/41. P. 193 f., Berlin 2000
  3. ↑ Mrs. Luna. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used