Stage fright (film)

Movie
Original title	Stage Fright
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1960
length	99 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Kurt Hoffmann
script	Heinz Pauck
production	Hans Abich for Film Construction GmbH (Munich)
music	Franz Grothe
camera	Sven Nykvist
cut	Hilwa from Boro
occupation
Dunja Movar : Gitta Crusius Bernhard Wicki : Director Hans Rohrbach Antje Weisgerber : Elsa Kaiser Gustav Knuth : Mr. Seipel Anne Kersten : Mrs. Wehrhahn Henry Vahl : Mr. Koerner Eva Vaitl : Mrs. Seipel Elke Sommer : Evelyne Claus Wilcke : Bastian Corinna Genest : Katja Gitty Daruga : Elisabeth Dieter Klein : Caspar Härtel Michael Hinz : Peter Hagen Inken Deter : Grete Seipel Helmut Förnbacher : Thomas Crusius Erna Sellmer : Mrs. Hochgesell Dieter Hildebrandt : Atze Müller Robert Graf : TV actor Ina Peters : TV actress Peter Kors : First actor in core city Peter Paul : Second actor in Kernstadt Werner Schwuchow : Third actor in Kernstadt Minna Späth : Actress in Kernstadt Peter Striebeck : First drama student Klaus Dahlen : Second drama student Hans Schweikart : Intendant Johanna von Koczian : You yourself Hannes Messemer : Himself Eva Maria Meineke : You yourself Rosel Schäfer : You yourself Annemarie Wernicke : You yourself Margarete Haagen : You yourself Veronika Fitz : You yourself Hans Clarin : Himself Erwin Faber : Himself Paul Bürks : Himself Harry Hertzsch : Himself

Stage Fright is a film drama by the director Kurt Hoffmann from 1960. The focus is on a Munich drama school whose students are confronted with the seriousness of the acting industry.

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Stage fright is the title of the feature film and that is also the emotion of the protagonists, which the plot revolves around: Young drama students from a Munich talent factory are living their dream of becoming actors. Small and large problems of young actors are characterized by more or less talented actors. The preppy Evelyne, for example, convinces with her pronounced self-confidence, while the at first glance rather inconspicuous Gitte is able to stand out with her real talent.

The small, ideal world is shaken when it turns out that there is not always only peace and unity between the young actors. Marked by financial hardships, the young talent Gitte begins a nocturnal, harmless, but lucrative side job.

Production notes

Filming began on November 16 and ended at the end of December 1959. The interior shots were taken in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig, the exterior shots in Munich.

Elisabeth Urbancic was responsible for the film construction together with Otto Jaindl and Johannes Waltz, Christoph Waltz's father . Hans Schweikart supported Heinz Pauck in creating the script . Dietrich Haugk and Eberhard Schröder supported Kurt Hoffmann with the direction.

Stage fright premiered on March 3, 1960 in the Munich City Hall Lichtspiele. Constantin Film AG (Munich) took over the later distribution .

Reviews

"Episodic, somewhat instructive entertainment with a look behind the scenes of the theater."

- Lexicon of international film

“With almost documentary thoroughness, director Kurt Hoffmann demonstrates the individual aspects of the training - speaking technique, improvisation exercises, movement security, role studies and work concentration. Many a golden dream is disenchanted, but the goal becomes more and more tangible. Interwoven are small personal stories of a swarm of teachers, suicide attempts. Lovesickness, turning off to the film and rediscovered marital happiness. "

- prisma.de

"Lots of neat offspring (Dunja Movar, Gitty Daruga, Elke Sommer, Michael Hinz) testify to talent."

- Spiegel Online

Web links

• Stage fright in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stage fright at cinema.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
2. ↑ Stage fright. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved August 16, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Stage fright. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
4. ^ Stage Fright (1959) - Films. In: prisma.de. Retrieved August 16, 2015 . 
5. ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: Stage fright (Germany). - DER SPIEGEL 12/1960. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved August 16, 2015 .