Big City Night (1932)

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Movie
Original title Big city night
Country of production Germany , France
original language German
Publishing year 1932
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Fedor Ozep
script Hans H. Zerlett based
on a design by Fedor Ozep and Victor Trivas
production Pathé-Nathan (Paris)
Terra-Film (Berlin)
music Karol Rathaus
under the musical direction of Kurt Schröder and Maurice Jaubert
camera Jean Bachelet
Henry Barreyre
cut Georges Friedland
occupation

Big City Night is the German-language version of a French film by Fedor Ozep from 1932 . The screen star Dolly Haas played the main female role, her colleague Inge Meysel , who was the same age and was completely unknown at the time, made her debut in front of the camera as a student in a boarding school for girls.

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The young French boarding school student Madeleine Duchanel desperately wants to go to the theater and therefore breaks away from the well-protected environment of her school. She hopes to make a career in Paris, but her naivete ends up on the street. A friendly newspaper seller advises Madeleine to try an artist's agent first. No sooner said than done, but the old theater agent shows no interest in the inexperienced debutante because, according to his credo, you either need a lot of money for the necessary advertising hype or at least a sensation, even better: a scandal, to become famous. But Madeleine cannot serve with either. But that doesn't mean the young woman gives up. Madeleine therefore decides to be “discovered” and goes to the artist mile Montparnasse. There she hopes to meet an already established colleague who will somehow help her.

In a café, allegedly a meeting place for celebrities, the waiter who wants to have fun with Madeleine claims that François, who is also present, is a prominent artist, namely the well-known singer Armand Tonnère. In truth, François is just a small, meaningless extra. He plays this charade, especially since he likes the unsuspecting Madeleine. He invites the naive innocent lamb into his apartment without further ado, which immediately leads to an unpleasant encounter: François already has a girlfriend, and Juliette is downright jealous. Overwhelmed by the situation, Madeleine rushes out of the small apartment into the Parisian city night. Juliette tosses Madeleine's suitcase out of the window, and the luggage ends up in the Seine . In the meantime, the real Monsieur Tonnère has learned that Madeleine is looking for him and wants to get to know him.

Madeleine now gets into one adventure after another. All of a sudden she is involved in a jewel theft. The criminals heard loud shouts and believe that these must be warning shouts as the police are on the march. One of them suspects that Madeleine had warned her and gives the now homeless and suitcaseless girl a brooch that was stolen from her. At least, the naive aspirant actor believes, she can use this piece of jewelry to finance her accommodation for the near future. At the same time, however, your new home will be frequented by the underworld. Now things are really getting going: Monsieur Tonnère is suspected of being behind the jewel robbery, and the newspapers even report Madeleine's suicide since their suitcase was fished out of the Seine! With that, the young woman finally has her sensation, and the girl is promptly committed to the leading role in a revue.

Production notes

Big City Night was filmed in the French Pathé Natan film studios in Joinville from January 1932. The world premiere took place on December 21, 1932 in the Vienna Capitol Cinema. Here the strip was still running under the title Großstadtnächte . The German premiere was on January 26, 1933 in the atrium in Berlin.

Eugen Tuscherer was production manager. The film structures were created by Andrej Andrejew and Lucien Aguettand , assisted by Max Douy .

The following music tracks were played:

  • Chanson of the Madeleine
  • Grandpa loved me
  • Stars shine on Paris
  • When he hopped like that
  • March and choir of the newspaper sellers

The German texts are from Walter Mehring .

The French version of this production was called Mirages de Paris and had completely different actors. This film ran in Paris on January 13, 1933.

Reviews

The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “Feder Ozep has created an interesting work with this film. You can feel the hand of a director who is more than a skilled routine and who shows the cinematic design new ways ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Big City Night". In:  Österreichische Film-Zeitung , December 24, 1932, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fil

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