Guitars of love

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Movie
Original title Guitars of love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1954
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Werner Jacobs
script Per Schwenzen ,
Joachim Wedekind ,
Ursula Bloy
production Willy Zeyn Film GmbH, Munich
music Willy Mattes
camera Oskar Schnirch
cut Johannes Lüdke
occupation

Guitars of Love is a German film fun game with a lot of music from 1954 by the director Werner Jacobs . The script goes back to an idea by Per Schwenzen and Joachim Wedekind . The main roles are cast with Vico Torriani , Elma Karlowa , Topsy Küppers , Harald Juhnke , Gerd Vespermann , Horst Uhse , Ellen Isenta and Ralph Lothar . The film first came to the cinema on October 7, 1954 in Hanover.

action

The musicians Gisa, Walter, Paul and Tom, who call themselves “The Hot Four”, drive to Italy in a rickety car in the hope of making it big there. When the car breaks down again, the local Roberto Trenti comes to their aid. He repaired the cart in no time. But before he gets back on his bike, he gives the four of them the tip to come to Venticasi next Sunday. There, his ex-girlfriend is marrying the mayor, and on this occasion there might be an opportunity to earn something.

Roberto causes a scandal at the wedding celebration by performing a song that is anything but flattering for the bride and groom. The mayor then prepares to throw the singer into the dry river bed, but ends up in it himself because of his clumsiness. When the outraged wedding guests want to pounce on Roberto, Roberto quickly disappears with the “hot four”.

On a small bridge a road cruiser comes towards the five , which forces both vehicles to stop. The passenger is the famous singer Ilona Mirko. On behalf of the concert agent Bernardo, she is looking for a natural talent named Roberto Trenti, who will replace her on the tour with the Mantovani orchestra , as she wants to withdraw from her contract for personal reasons. Roberto falls head over heels in love with the girl, but does not reveal himself and continues with his new friends, whom he has joined as a singer and whom he does not want to abandon. Ultimately, however, Ilona manages to find him, but he maintains that he cannot help but keep his word to his music colleagues.

After Roberto and Ilona had their first kiss during a joint excursion, he promised her to think again about the chance that such a contract would offer him and to talk to his friends about it. Meanwhile, Fred Jacques tries to intervene in her life again, with whom Ilona has signed her contract without knowing it, by convincing Roberto that she only tricked him because she needs a replacement and is a clever person. However, he is the one that Ilona does not want to keep her contract because of he has already played badly to her. He also suppresses a letter from Ilona to Roberto in which she asks him for a personal conversation, which seals the break between the two. Then, however, Mantovani and Bernardo intervene personally in the event and lead everything to a happy ending.

At his first big performance Roberto not only achieved a remarkable success, it is even more important that Ilona is on stage with him and they sing the love waltz together .

production

Production notes

The film was produced in a makeshift studio in a factory hall in Rapallo and in the Bavaria Film studio in Geiselgasteig . The exterior shots were taken in Santa Margherita Ligure as well as in Genoa and the surrounding area. Hans Berthel created the buildings, producer Willy Zeyn and Erwin Gitt took over the production management. In addition to Mantovani and his Charmaine Orchestra, the Munich Sound Film Orchestra plays.

music

The songs from the film were published by Telefunken at the time.

Subsequent tracks Music: Willy Mattes, Text: Walter Brandin

  • Vis-à-vis, like you
  • La Signora Musica
  • Cuculino, Cuculo
  • A thousand mandolins
  • Little Moor

DVD

The film was released by Alive AG on June 29, 2018 as part of the "Jewels of Film History" series on DVD.

criticism

“A lovable, entertaining music film with a brilliantly presented Vico Torriani, his fast hits and a picturesque Italian backdrop. As a discovered natural talent, Vico Torriani proves ... that he is not only a singer and charming lad who beguiles women, but also a personable and natural actor, ”wrote a critic when the film was released in 1954.

The lexicon of international films does not think much of the film : "Banal confusions of love, superficial amusement, sappy songs and a colorful travel brochure from Italy as the backdrop in a hit film intended for immediate use for Vico Torriani fans of the fifties."

The magazine Filmblätter wrote that Vico Torriani was proving "for the second time that he is not only a singer and charming lad who beguiles women, but also a personable and natural actor."

Cinema was of the opinion “shallow music farce”, only to dismiss the film with the words: “Schluckerschnulze about two gold throats in a thousand troubles. With 60s star Vico Torriani. ”The conclusion was then:“ Wherever you hear the noise, your thumb sinks ”.

source

  • Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by Klemmer-Verlag Mannheim, without a number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 421
  2. ↑ Guitars of love and other fig. Cover Telefunken
  3. ↑ Guitars of Love Fig. DVD case film jewels (in the picture: Annunzio Mantovani, Elma Karlowa, Vico Torriani)
  4. ↑ Guitars of love see page 2-aus-kw.de. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 1337.
  6. ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , p. 120
  7. ↑ see page cinema.de (including 3 film images). Retrieved June 28, 2020.