Love me!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Love me! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1942 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Braun |
| script |
Johann Vaszary with the collaboration of Kurt Bortfeldt , Herbert Witt and (unnamed) Georg Jacoby |
| production | Georg Jacoby (production group) for UFA , Berlin |
| music | Franz Grothe |
| camera | Reimar Kuntze |
| cut | Margarethe Noell |
| occupation | |
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Love me! is a German revue film from the year 1942. Directed by Harald Braun played Marika Rokk the lead role.
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Monika Koch works as a revue dancer at the theater. One evening she is late for her performance, so secretly sneaks up on the stage and promptly ends up in the wrong scene. In her need, the spirited young woman begins to improvise. In doing so, she shows undreamt-of talents as a comic insert: in the middle of the aria of the two main actors, she tumbles down a hill as Cupid with a bow and arrow and right at the couple's feet. Monika taps and dances in her distress and accidentally fires the arrow in the back of the main actress, who then runs away into the scenery. Monika sings the aria to the end with the scene partner who has stayed behind. The audience applauds and is enthusiastic, the theater director just the opposite: He's pissed off and unceremoniously throws Monika out of the ensemble. To make matters worse, Monika's landlady also throws her out of her little room because she can no longer pay the overdue rent. In the stairwell, the unlucky person meets her neighbor, the Egyptologist Georg Nöhring, who feels just as lonely and abandoned as she does. He lets Monika in and they quickly get along well. At the end of the same evening, the two got engaged.
Georg tells his best friend Andreas Rüdiger about his future wife at the next opportunity. But he is anything but enthusiastic and thinks that Georg would run into his misfortune if he committed the stupidity of becoming engaged to a woman he didn't know at all. In order to prevent a catastrophe, Andreas Georg's servant Paul quickly instructs him to call each of the invited guests and cancel the upcoming engagement party. Only Papa Schmidtke appears at the huge festive table of the noble restaurant and can be served up for one person at dinner. Andreas persuades Georg to take a winter vacation at short notice. But he refuses and instead locks himself up at home. Now Andreas appears in his place at the train station, where he meets the angry Monika. She originally came here to keep her Georg from the trip.
In the corridor of the train, Monika Andreas begins to speak properly when the express slowly rolls up and Monika can no longer get out. She now has to go to the mountains in Tyrol with Andreas, whom she can't stand because of his intrigue. To make matters worse, the hotel at the arrival point is also fully booked. Andreas can make up for some of the damage he has done by offering Monika his room and inviting her to dinner. He even organizes an evening dress for her, but it's much too big. Soon Monika has to realize that Georg's friend is not quite as bad a guy as assumed. On the contrary: over time, she even likes him more than her fiancé.
Meanwhile, Monika's best friend Helene is worried and wonders where Monika is, who only wanted to go to the train station for a short time. She goes to Georg, and the two young people get along exceptionally well from the start, especially since the Egyptologist thinks that Helene has a certain resemblance to the Nefertiti bust that is a copy in his apartment. Shortly afterwards, Georg decides to follow Monika to Tyrol to break their engagement. Monika, on the other hand, is not angry with him at all and falls around her ex-fiancé's neck. When Andreas sees this, he misunderstands the scene and leaves disappointedly from his vacation spot without letting anyone know. In the meantime the director of the revue theater has decided to give her the lead role in the new revue (given the excellent reviews about Monika's spontaneous contribution in the last play). At the premiere, Andreas is also in the audience. In the box next door are Georg and Helene, who have meanwhile married. Georg makes it clear to him that Monika only loves him, Andreas. He secretly sneaks into the backdrop to confess his love to Monika in the midst of her vocal performance.
Production notes
Love me! was shot from June 15 to the end of July 1942 in the UFA studios in Berlin-Tempelhof . The premiere was on December 8, 1942 in two Berlin cinemas. The following year the film was also released in Finnish, Dutch and French cinemas. From the end of May 1944, Hab mich lieb! moreover in Sweden.
Rökk's husband Georg Jacoby took over the production management as well as the production management. Ernst H. Albrecht designed the film structures. From Vera Mügge the costume designs originate Walter Rühland was sound engineer. The dances were rehearsed by Sabine Ress.
The lyrics to Franz Grothes music come from Willy Dehmel . From the four Grothe / Rökk songs played It's just love , I want so much, I just don't know what , come and give me your hand and sing with me! the latter in particular became an evergreen.
The production costs amounted to around 1,441,000 Reichsmarks , the income, after just five months of playing, by April 1943 to around 3,830,000 RM. That made me dear! an overwhelming box office hit.
reception
Love me! is considered Braun's most popular and successful production in the Third Reich: “The film found an enthusiastic audience. The press particularly praised Marika Rökk's achievements. "
“A seemingly artificial love story with a stencil-like plot about jealousy and a double happy ending in winter sports. Garnished with pleasing evergreens by Franz Grothe and some brisk dance parts with Marika Rökk. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 61 f. (022.42), Berlin 2001
- ↑ Boguslaw Drewniak: 'Der deutsche Film 1938–1945', a total overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 470
- ↑ I love me! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Love me! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love me! at filmportal.de
- Love me! in the online film database