Gasparone (1937)

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Movie
Original title Gasparone
Gasparone 1937 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1937
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Georg Jacoby
script Werner Eplinius ,
Hans Leip ,
Rudo Ritter
production UFA , Max Pfeiffer manufacturing group
music Peter Kreuder
camera Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
cut Carl Otto Bartning
occupation

Gasparone is a German operetta adaptation by Georg Jacoby from 1937. It is based on Carl Millöcker's operetta Gasparone .

action

In the state of Olivia, after years of hiatus, the robber Gasparone is up to mischief again. Even a play in which the dancer Ita plays the leading role is dedicated to his deeds. Ita is Ita who worries the Prefect of Police Nasoni most, besides Gasparone: The niece of the opaque Massaccio is the great love of his son Sindulfo. However, according to Nasoni’s will, he should marry Countess Carlotta Ambrat. She is still poor, but Nasoni knows that the rich but lost relative Count Jucundus has since been declared dead. Countess Ambrat has therefore become a good match as heir, even if Nasoni does not want to announce the inheritance until after his son's wedding.

A charming stranger appears in Olivia, who introduces himself as Erminio and immediately falls in love with Carlotta. When Sindulfo is forced by his father to continue with the Ambrats, Erminio and Ita agree: She disguises herself with her dancers as Gasparone and takes Sindulfo prisoner. She whispers in his ear that Carlotta Gasparone belongs and that he should never marry her. Carlotta is meanwhile "saved" by Erminio, who is mistaken for Gasparone by the summoned police. Nevertheless, Erminio is allowed to spend the night at the Countess's castle. When he tries to slip away at night, he is stopped by Sindulfo, who hopes that Carlotta will finally fall in love with Erminio that night. Erminio knocks Sindulfo down and goes to the bar of Massaccio, who is actually active as a coffee smuggler. In order to better cover his crimes, he invented attacks by Gasparone, which are supposed to keep the police away from the actual crime scene during hours of smuggling activity. Erminio receives from Massaccio the confession of being Gasparone and wants to confront him, but is overwhelmed by Massaccio's accomplice to the innkeeper Benozzo and locked in a dungeon. He escapes late and Benozzo explains that everyone is waiting for Countess Carlotta Ambrat to be engaged to Sindulfo.

Erminio rushes to the castle, where Ita can entertain the guests until he appears in a tuxedo and bow tie and thwarted the engagement speech. The entire event is interrupted shortly afterwards by the arrival of Count Jucundus, who has returned from the jungle. The rich inheritance that Nasoni had hoped for is now gone and he urges his son to renounce the engagement to Carlotta. Erminio and Ita are outraged. When Jucundus declares that he has so much money that he will leave the castle to Carlotta and her aunt Zenobia, Nasoni is again in favor of his son's connection with the countess. In the meantime, Erminio has proposed marriage to her, while Sindulfo has become engaged to Ita. Together they return to the party and present those present with a fait accompli. Erminio can now introduce himself to everyone as a civil servant whose job it was to capture Gasparone - Gasparone alias Massaccio, in turn, has been arrested in the meantime.

production

Gasparone was filmed from September 1 to November 1937 on the open-air site in Neubabelsberg and on the islands of Korčula and Lokrum near Dubrovnik . The censors released the film on December 14, 1937, from 14 years of age. Gasparone had its premiere on December 21, 1937 in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo .

Gasparone is based on the operetta of the same name by Carl Millöcker. The melodies of Millöckers were arranged by Peter Kreuder . The film is dominated by the singing of Johannes Heesters , who only came to Germany in 1935 and played one of his first film roles in German here. Marika Rökk was at his side; It was the second collaboration between the two actors after Der Bettelstudent from 1936. “'Gasparone' was the last step to great success,” said Marika Rökk, looking back on her career. She learned tapping for the film from an American within a few weeks and performed a tap dance number in Gasparone for the first time in her film career . The tap series by Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody had previously made Rökk want to learn to tap. For her dance number, she was critically compared to Powell after the premiere.

criticism

The film-dienst wrote: "Leo Slezak as the extensive police prefect and Marika Rökk at the summit of their fabulous dance technique bring momentum to the carefree action, which splashes on arias."

Cinema said: “A nice music film based on the operetta by Carl Millöcker with the then dream couple Marika Rökk / Johannes Heesters. Conclusion: smart back then, but dusty today ”.

The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “The pre-war film adaptation of the well-known operetta with a little patina of age. However, thanks to the good cast, a generally weightless conversation from 14. "

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Individual evidence

  1. Marika Rökk: Heart with paprika. Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 119.
  2. Marika Rökk: Heart with paprika. Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, pp. 118-119.
  3. EP, M .: Gasparone . In: film-dienst , No. 14, 1950.
  4. See cinema.de
  5. ^ Editor: Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 331/1962