Carnival of love

Movie
Original title	Carnival of love
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1943
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Paul Martin
script	Walter Forster , Peter Groll Paul Martin
production	Berlin film, HG Franz Vogel
music	Michael Jary
camera	Stefan Eiben (d. I. István Eiben) Hugo O. Schulze
cut	Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
occupation
Johannes Heesters : tenor Peter Hansen Dora Komar : Marina Garden Hans Moser : Uncle Meierhofer Dorit Kreysler : Kitty, dancer Axel von Ambesser : composer Michael Frank Richard Romanowsky : Director Melchior Oberländer Gustav Waldau : Count Lauenfels Evelyn Künneke : singer and revue dancer Ewald Wenck : false registrar Karl Hellmer : tram conductor Walter Steinweg : Stage manager Klaus Pohl : Wichmann cloakroom Angelo Ferrari : sleeper car attendant Tibor Halmay : Tibor, waiter Friedrich Honna : Lakai Karl Alberti : room waiter Max Wilmsen : taxi driver Werner Pledath : Police officer in the guardroom Erwin Biegel : tram passenger Curt Cappi : a passenger who complains Karl Etlinger : Another passenger who complains Albert Probeck : Servant at the registry office Julius von Szöreghy : contentious tram passenger Eleonore Tappert : fat woman in the tram Karl Wagner : Passenger who eats Manny Jacobowitz Gerhard Dammann

Carnival of Love is a German revue film by Paul Martin from 1943 .

action

Tenor Peter Hansen wants to marry for the second time. A few minutes before the wedding with the dancer and singer Kitty, however, he is still rehearsing for a current revue by Director Melchior Oberländer. Kitty's uncle Meierhofer, who is employed as a prompter in the theater, urges us to leave. However, Melchior is announced that his newly engaged female star Marina Garden has arrived. She is to sing duets with Peter during an upcoming guest performance in Cologne. Marina Garden turns out to be Peter's divorced wife who has adopted a stage name. Peter searched for a long time after the breakup, but could not find her. Now he immediately falls in love with her. Although she learns from the jostling Meierhofer that Peter is on his way to the registry office, Peter manages to manipulate the carriage, car and taxi and in the end he is even asked to leave the tram. The wedding does not take place, but it should be rescheduled during the tour. In addition, it should be concealed from the ensemble that the first wedding attempt failed.

Marina thinks Peter got married and now pretends to be married already. Peter doesn't believe her and urges her to dine with her husband. So Marina hires the supposed waiter Frank for the evening as her dummy husband. Frank, on the other hand, is actually the successful composer Michael Frank, who has been sending Marina flowers for two years, which she has always rejected. His disguise as a waiter was just to get close to her. In the evening Frank plays his role as husband exuberantly, so that Peter soon voluntarily leaves the "happy couple" alone. During the train ride to the guest performance in Cologne, Kitty and Marina are quartered in one compartment. Kitty soon learns that Marina is Peter's first wife and is horrified, especially as Peter suggests to her that he wants to break the engagement. Marina, on the other hand, learns unnoticed that both are not married.

In Cologne, Kitty wants to take revenge on Peter. She lures him into her dressing room and takes his face in her hands, having previously drawn a lipstick mouth on her palm. When he comes out of her dressing room, he has a kiss on his face and Marina reacts angrily. Frank, on the other hand, followed the dancers to Cologne and promptly appears backstage at that moment. Marina receives her “husband” all the more radiantly.

During their guest performance, the artists spend the night in a feudal castle of a count, with Peter, Marina and Frank living next to each other. During a tour of the palace, Peter learns that the wall in the middle room can be made to disappear using a lever. He pulls the lever, but it's not the wall between his and Marina's room, but the one between Marina and Frank's room that disappears. Marina is irritated and angry at first, but Frank finally reveals to her that he is not a simple waiter, but a composer who has loved her for a long time. He also has all the papers with him to marry Marina. She rushes out of her room indignantly, but Peter is already waiting in front of it, who has just learned from Meierhofer that Marina is not married at all. He confronts Marina with her lie, but she says that Frank has just asked for her hand. To save face, she says that they are both going to get married and the lucky Frank suggests a wedding date in three weeks. Peter wants to see how far Marina would go in her pride and convinces both of them to tie the knot the very next day. Marina agrees out of necessity.

The next day, Marina and Frank go to the registry office with their groomsmen Peter and Melchior. Meanwhile, Meierhofer learns from Kitty that she never kissed Peter, but only played a prank on him. She had never been in love with Peter either, but only wanted to marry him for the money. Meierhofer rushes to the registry office, but is turned away because the office has closed - the entrance sign has been stolen. Meanwhile, Frank and Marina are married. Only during the wedding does it become clear that Frank has already been married four times. Peter nevertheless encourages Marina to marry Frank, so that she is reluctant to say yes in the end.

A short time later the police appear and arrest the wedding party. At the station, the policeman explains that he has investigated an anonymous complaint: someone has exchanged the signs from the Oceanographic Museum and the registry office. The alleged registrar is actually a swimming instructor, so the marriage is invalid. Peter now admits to having replaced the signs himself and also made the ad. False pride is always wrong. Meierhofer appears and explains Kitty's prank. Peter and Marina are reconciled and at the end appear together in the revue. When the curtain falls, they kiss.

production

Carnival of Love was filmed from May 26th to the beginning of December 1942 in the Althoff studio and in the UFA studio in Babelsberg as well as in the Hunnia studios in Budapest . The outdoor shots were made in Potsdam from the end of August 1942 (around the theater, town houses on the city canal, Potsdam tram). The film was banned by the censors and had its premiere on April 1, 1943 in Königsberg . The Berlin premiere took place on April 9, 1943 in the Elyseum on Prenzlauer Allee and in the Elysium .

The manufacturing costs amounted to RM 1.965 million.

Numerous songs composed by Michael Jary can be heard in the film . The lyrics are from Aldo von Pinelli and Hans Fritz Beckmann :

• Only through you this world becomes beautiful
• Young man
• The carousel
• Have you ever kissed in the dark?
• One, two, three, hocus-pocus
• Do you love once
• At night

The film structures come from Alfred Bütow and Heinrich Beisenherz . Luggi Waldleitner was the director of production for the film.

criticism

For the film service , Carnival of Love was "a light-hearted revue game in which Heesters wears tails in the usual elegant manner and brings Schlager to the audience."

literature

• Carnival of love . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-166-4 , p. 107.

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Web links

• Carnival of Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carnival of love at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Trimborn: The gentleman in tails. Johannes Heesters - biography . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 509-510.
2. ↑ Carnival of Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .