Gitta discovers her heart

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Movie
Original title Gitta discovers her heart
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1932
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Froelich
script Johannes Brandt ,
Erich Faber
production Friedrich Pflughaupt for Carl Froelich-Film GmbH (FFG)
music Nikolaus Brodszky ,
Hansom Milde-Meißner
camera Curt Courant
cut Oswald Hafenrichter ,
Hansom Milde-Meißner
occupation

and Egon Brosig , Gerhard Dammann , Kurt Lilien , Fritz Spira , Heinz Sarnow , Enno Lingner

Gitta discovers her heart is a German song and love film from 1932 by Carl Froelich with Gitta Alpár , Gustav Fröhlich and Paul Kemp in the leading roles. Brandt and Faber's script is based on an idea by Tilde Förster.

action

The Prímás a musical ensemble comes recites with a beautiful voice in the search for new members in a small Hungarian village on the young Gitta Farkas, the confident their song. She was accepted and soon became an acclaimed revue star. In the following years she travels the world with the ensemble.

During a train ride to a guest performance in Berlin, the Prímás Gitta tries to get closer. However, she rejects him and leaves the train in Berlin before the destination station. After boarding a double-decker bus, she starts a conversation with her seatmate Peter, a young composer, who she suggests not to compose serious things. When she has to get off - without a ticket and without money - Peter gets out too and takes her home. Peter and Gitta sneak past the party his wealthy father is giving to the upper floor and rehearse the song that Gitta is humming to him on his piano.

While Peter is then seized by the guests, Gitta drapes a large silk scarf around her body and mingles with the guests, where the host greets them with delight. When her “dress” comes off the back and his father confronts Peter about Gitta, he leaves the house angrily with Gitta, but lets his father know beforehand that he now wants to get through life on his own. At the door he meets his friend Fred, who wants to borrow money from him. Fred takes Peter and Gitta with him to his room under the roof. Little did the men suspect that the young woman is already an extremely successful singer.

To settle the bill for a taxi, Gitta sends the driver to the hotel where the music ensemble is housed, namely to her dance partner János, who is supposed to settle the bill. Meanwhile, Peter asks his publisher for an advance payment for the newly composed song. However, the latter refuses, stating that the printing of his irrelevant compositions had been paid for by his father. The Prímás has now pulled out all the stops to find his star again and has even offered a high reward, but Gitta has disappeared. He can't count on his second line-up, Ilona, ​​because she can't manage to create a sound because of her excitement. Shortly before the upcoming premiere, Gitta returns to the Prímás because she wants to help her Peter.

The Prímás is so relieved that his star has returned that he allows Gitta to sing Peter's song. When Peter sees his Gitta at the premiere as the big star of the revue, who is performing his song with great success, he believes that she was joking with him. Despite all misunderstandings, however, the young couple finally get back together.

Contemporary history

Modern Berlin is shown in the film: In a detailed scene, Gitta can be seen with her two men in a large wave pool. The director allows himself the joke of allowing jumpers who have jumped off the springboard to get back onto the springboard by playing the scene backwards. The scene is integrated into the plot in that the Prímás appears in a coat and hat, searches for and finds with János Gitta and falls into the water. Instead of music, happy ducks croak can be heard.

Before Peter realizes that his Julika is the famous Gitta, his father comes into his room and does not compare his son, who is standing in front of a Beethoven bust with his hair slicked back and an insulted face, with him, but shouts: "Like Hitler". In 1932 such a "joke" was still possible.

Production notes and trivia

Construction of the film began on January 20, 1932. The shooting lasted from January 28th to March 3rd, 1932. There was a division of labor in the music field: While Nikolaus Brodszky was creating the composition, Hansom Milde-Meißner took over the musical direction of the same. The film structures listed by Walter Haag were designed by Carl Froelich's long-time chief architect Franz Schroedter . Erich Lange took care of the sound, Hugo Froelich , the younger brother of the director, served as unit manager. The famous animation and experimental filmmaker Oskar Fischinger created the trick titles .

This film had a special meaning for the main actors Alpár and Fröhlich. On the day of the glamorous premiere - there should have been a total of 27 curtains - the two artists married.

background

The author and critic Karlheinz Wendtland stated that "the only two sound films made in Germany with Gitta Alpar (apart from this one in the same year Die - or none ) [were] never shown on television and this with this exceptionally good contemporary review" ! When Alpar "(finally!) Received the Federal Film Prize in Berlin in 1987 at the age of 84, it was - rightly - [said] that she helped to ensure that Berlin became what it once was". Wendtland regretted that “those who were born afterwards were no longer familiar with these names. One could keep her memory alive with her films! "

Pieces of music and publication

Gitta Alpár sings several songs in the film, including the song - composed by Peter in the film - with which she became famous. It begins "When we listen to an old fairy tale ..." and then comes to the main line What can be as beautiful as your love . It play Dajos Béla and his orchestra. At a company in Peter's father's house, the orchestra will play Will Glahé , who also accompanies the theater rehearsals on the piano. Other titles:

  • For you I sing my most beautiful songs ...
  • Hello, my lady! ...
  • Girl, that's you ...
  • Where the woods are green ...

The film premiered in Germany on April 5, 1932 in Berlin. Its working title was: Madame discovers her heart . In Austria it was published under the title Das Lied der Puszta . In the same year it was also published in Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and under the title Gitta Discovers Her Heart in the United States. It also ran in Brazil, Czechoslovakia and Greece.

Reviews

Edith Hamann wrote in the Filmwoche : “Gitta Alpar won this, her first and decisive sound film battle across the board… So if you deduct the performance of the singer Gitta Alpar, a really good film remains even without this outstanding performance - and that means a lot with such a star film. The wisdom of having chosen the wise Carl Froelich as the film mentor of such a great name cannot be extolled enough. A clever, smiling face shines through the entire film, in every scene you can feel his firm yet light hand, which is always safe and experienced. ”It was also said that the cast was“ first class ”, and that“ Leonard Steckel was the caricature of all of them Pusztas temperaments, Paul Kemp, the most loyal of all comedians, Oscar Sabo, the nicest of all fathers, Tibor von Halmay, the most agile of all singing dancers, and Blandine Ebinger, who makes a 'Wurzen', a pale episode figure, a great guy . Alpar's enchanting voice shines out of this brilliant ensemble, but it [is] not only the glowing, passionate sweetness of her voice that conquers, it [is] also the verve and verve of a gifted actress who pulls all the stops from sentimental femininity to boyish humor, draw this little Hungarian girl, who [will] be a great revue star, into an experience thanks to her unusual temperament ”.

The "excellent photography by Curt Courant" was also praised, which "contributed significantly to the success of the film". Gustav Fröhlich, who was married to Gitta Alpar at the time, was described as "a charming boy, more radiant and 'happier' than ever, as a 'young Beethoven' with a quiet and charming comedy". It was also prophesied that the song 'What can be as beautiful as your love' would soon be “on everyone's lips”. The premiere was "a so-called 'great evening' ', and there is no prophetic gift to predict success for this film everywhere, even without the piquant aftertaste of a couple who not only play love ..."

"Comedy in the form of an operetta, tailored entirely to the Hungarian opera singer Gitta Alpár."

- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 3rd year 1932. P. 80 (044.32), Berlin-Berchtesgaden 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gitta discovers her heart. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on August 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ It's about the 1930 modernized Stadtbad Mitte in Berlin with its 50 m pool.
  3. ^ German sound films, 3rd year 1932. p. 80
  4. ↑ a b c Karlheinz Wendtland: Geliebter Kintopp All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies, born in 1932, Medium Film Verlag Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, 1st edition 1990, 2nd revised edition 1992, pp. 64, 65, film 47 / 1932, ISBN 3-926945-11-7
  5. ↑ Gitta discovers her heart Main hit at buchfreund.de
  6. ↑ Das Lied der Puszta adS virtual-history.com
  7. ↑ Gitta discovers her heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 22, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used