In my heart, honey ...
| Movie | |
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| Original title | In my heart, honey ... |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| script | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (conception) |
| production | Ottokar Runze |
| music | Gerd Bellmann |
| camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
| cut | Barbara Büscher-Grimm |
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In my heart, darling ... is a German documentary with game elements from 1989 by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg . Ulrich Tukur plays Hans Albers .
action
The film begins with an illusion, a deception that it quickly dissolves: When fog swirls in front of you, dark waves slosh, a bank appears on the horizon and ship sirens sound at the same time, then you immediately think of Germany's Hamburg home (next to Heinz Rühmann) most popular screen star of the 20th century: Hans Albers. But Albers, who moved early to the German theater province, then made a film career in Berlin and finally settled on Lake Starnberg in 1933, only lived a very short time in Hamburg, that of his youth. But the city on the Elbe always served only as the backdrop for a staunch hamburger and Bavarian by choice, who is associated with the Hanseatic city like no other. And so are the tones of the foghorns from the tape just like the shore of Lake Starnberg, and these images quickly become clear as part of Albers' lifelong self-presentation.
There are no excerpts from old Albers films in front of the audience; rather, one sees impressions of Hamburg der Moderne (late 1980s) and hears contemporary witnesses about encounters with the screen legend: his former chauffeur, the veteran director Geza von Cziffra, the whistling colleague Ilse Werner, his film partner in the two greatest Albers successes of the War years, Münchhausen and Große Freiheit No. 7 , as well as a collector who presents the two Albers costumes in his possession. In addition, well-known songs that Albers once intoned with his very own, coarse melting in the voice - songs that Ulrich Tukur performs with his timbre in Albers-style: ironic, playful, brought into the present. The film closes with the voice of Albers director Helmut Käutner ( Great Freedom No. 7 ), who died in 1980 and who gave a very personal eulogy for his old companion in 1960 on the occasion of Albers' funeral in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .
Production notes
In my heart, darling ... was created in 1988/89 as a film-television coproduction and was premiered on March 6, 1989 in Hamburg's Streit's film theater . The mass start was September 7, 1989.
The film title comes from the line of a famous Albers song: "In my heart, honey, there is room for many".
Reviews
“A film that makes you cry, where the 'Oops, now I'm coming!' Songs bump sore against that crumbled and wasted life whose heart was not only beating in St. Pauli. Blumenberg has an eye and an ear for the hidden beauties of a German dreariness, and Hans Albers is his gateway to the world. "
“A film about Hans Albers ... and a lot more, because it is not a conventional portrait film, but goes its own way with its images and sounds. (...) For a long time this is a wonderful music film. It is also a film about the city in which Albers is still remembered today, although he lived on Lake Starnberg from 1933: a film about Hamburg, where there is the port, St. Pauli, the Reeperbahn, the Große Freiheit and the Hotel Atlantic, where a suite was always reserved for him. "
“From sound and image documents as well as re-enacted, atmospherically dense frame sequences, a cinematic tribute, assembled like a collage, to the actor and singer Hans Albers, who was important for German film in the first half of this century. A loving and respectful homage that is quite informative in terms of film history. "
“Blumenberg traces the popular Albers phenomenon where it was born and where it is still alive today: not in the sales statistics of the record companies, but in the smoky bars of St. Pauli. (...) 'In my heart, sweetheart ...' is a film that deals with German (cinema) history, but it does so in the present tense. It is about ruptures: the rupture that German film suffered with the Nazi rule, which has not yet healed, and it is about the rupture in Hans Albers' understanding of homeland. "
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Albers - In my heart, honey on YouTube
- ↑ In my heart, darling ... In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed September 3, 2018 .
Web links
- In my heart, dear ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In my heart, honey ... at filmportal.de
- Long review by Hans Helmut Prinzler
- Long review by Dieter Kuhlbrodt