Your Majesty Love

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Movie
Original title Your Majesty Love
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1931
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Joe May
script Adolf Lantz
Rudolf Bernauer
Rudolf Austrian
production Joe May
music Walter Jurmann
camera Otto Kanturek
occupation

Her Majesty Love is a love film comedy made in 1930 by Joe May with Käthe von Nagy and Franz Lederer in the leading roles.

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The plump Othmar von Wellingen runs the family's own engine factory, which also employs his brother, the elegant and charming Fred von Wellingen. Fred, a light-hearted woman happier, would like to move up in the company hierarchy and also needs a better salary for his amours. The family, on the other hand, which also holds the majority of the shares, has completely different plans: In order to increase the company's capital, the rather useless charmer Fred should marry Frau von Lingenfeld, who is no longer completely fresh, but has the necessary finances in a possible one Could bring marriage. In order to escape the pressure that is exerted on him, Fred has a brilliant idea: He wants to produce a social scandal after he is lost forever as the husband of the noble lady. And so he starts a fight with the simple but pretty and down-to-earth bar girl Lia Török, to whom he immediately becomes engaged.

Lia works in the dance bar where Fred is a regular. The modest girl is genuinely happy about Fred's proposal, believing that he loves her as much as she loves him. Little does she suspect that it only serves as a means to an end. When the beautiful do-it-all appears at a Wellingens company party with Lia in tow and introduces her as his bride, he has his scandal. Brother Othmar then gives in: He is ready to give Fred the desired better position with a salary that is worthy of a general manager. However, Othmar linked this deal with one condition: Fred should part with Lia again. He thinks he has reached the goal of his dreams. He signs his new contract, but feels remorse about Lia. The nice girl learns of this dirty deal and, deeply struck by Fred, withdraws.

Fred knows that he has acted shabbily and tries to save Lia what can be saved, but the young woman rigorously blocks all his efforts and instead considers giving in to the intense recruiting of the somewhat weird Baron Schwapsdorf. Fred, who believes that all is now lost, travels to Venice to clear his head again. When he learns that Lia will marry the baron the following day, he immediately returns to Berlin and wants to try one more last attempt at reconciliation. But Fred is late, when he arrives Lia is already under the hood. Like Dustin Hoffman decades later in The Graduation Examination , Fred kidnaps his lady of heart in front of the altar, Lia confesses his love for her and roars off in the wedding car with the perplexed newlywed. There is nothing in his company contract that he shouldn't marry a divorced Baroness Schwapsdorf.

Production notes

Her Majesty Love was created in the autumn of 1930 in Berlin and Venice (exterior shots) and was premiered on January 9, 1931 in the Gloria-Palast in Berlin.

Andrej Andrejew and Erich Kettelhut designed the film structures. Walter Tjaden set the tone. Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Österreicher wrote the lyrics. Willy Schmidt-Gentner took over the musical direction . Leo Monosson sings several songs. Also was played Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . The jazz band de Vries plays.

A French version of this film was also made at the same time under the title Son altesse l'amour . Joe May only took over the artistic direction here. A US version called Her Majesty Love was released in Hollywood in late 1931 . Directed by Wilhelm Dieterle .

Music track

The following titles, published by Alrobi-Musikverlag in Berlin, were played:

  • You are not the first
  • Wedding March (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
  • I think about Mädi all night
  • Miss, do you already know my rhythm?
  • You are my luck
  • Man, don't worry about it

Reviews

The Berlin reviews after the premiere in January 1931 were consistently friendly and sometimes enthusiastic. The Film-Kurier describes the strip as a "world hit" and that with Joe May's production "a standard work was launched". The cinematographer called the film a “direct hit” and went on to say: “If you think about where the great success is coming from immediately after the performance, you will first come across a brilliant directorial performance from Joe May.” The film journal said To have seen May's best film so far: "You laugh for two hours and the applause at the end never ends." The light and image stage also joined in: "[...] the most amusing, cultivated and skilful German Film amusement game that talked about film so far. [...] The new means of expression is mastered here with an almost astonishing virtuosity. Ideas, ideas! The film stands under this symbol! "

The more recent film reviews also pay tribute to Her Majesty Love . On the occasion of a retrospective, epd Film said: “This is a very, very funny film, very lively, with catchy hit songs, the cheeky and cheerful texts of which cleverly comment on the plot. With big little things by the way - the piccolo waiter who dilutes the sparkling wine with soda; Adele Sandrock as a nipper aunt who draws attention in her few appearances. Or Ralph Arthur Roberts as a six-fold divorcee who sees his chance when Fred drops Lia. Paul Henckels as a friendly and jovial registrar is especially nice. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Review overview ". In:  Österreichische Film-Zeitung , January 17, 1931, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fil
  2. ↑ Reviews in epd film from February 22, 2018

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