My songs plead softly
| Movie | |
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| Original title | My songs plead softly |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Willi Forst |
| script |
Walter Reisch Willi Forst |
| production |
Gregor Rabinowitsch Arnold Pressburger |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner using Schubert compositions |
| camera | Franz Planner |
| cut | Viktor Gertler |
| occupation | |
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Quietly begging my songs is a German feature film from 1933, which focuses on the life of the composer Franz Schubert . Directed by Willi Forst played Hans Jaray the lead role.
The title of the film corresponds to the first verse of the poem Ständchen by Ludwig Rellstab , which Schubert set to music as the fourth song in his cycle Schwanengesang .
action
The young composer Franz Schubert has to move his guitar due to financial difficulties in order to at least continue to pay his rent. Emmy, the pawnbroker's daughter, is so impressed by his modest and friendly demeanor that she pays him more than the instrument is worth. Soon they will both get a little closer. In the meantime, the conductor Antonio Salieri seeks out Schubert, whose talent he has heard. He offers Schubert, who works full-time as an assistant teacher, to be introduced to society as a young talent at an upcoming soirée by Countess Kinsky. When the Viennese performed his unfinished symphony , several possible endings suddenly occurred to him in the middle of the game, which he then performed in not yet fully developed variations with artistic zeal. When he gets laughter from the distinguished audience - especially from the young Countess Esterházy - Schubert is so irritated that he breaks off his lecture and leaves the soirée angrily.
A few days later, Schubert was invited as a music teacher to the Count's palace of the Esterházys in Hungary . There he meets the countess again, who on the one hand apologizes for her behavior recently, but on the other hand treats him like an employee. The ice breaks when Schubert sees her dancing in the village jug of Czardas one evening . Despite the difference in class, they both want to get married. Her father, however, cleverly thwarts his daughter, who is prone to erratic decisions and emotional snap-shots. After returning to Vienna, Emmy is already waiting longingly for Schubert, but is all the more disappointed when a letter arrives from Caroline's younger sister Marie, in which she asks for Schubert to return to Hungary.
The old count, however, was not idle and arranged for Caroline's marriage to a young officer. Schubert arrives at the castle just at the time of the wedding. As an unexpected 'wedding present' he gives her his unfinished symphony, which he has finally completed. At the point where she laughed particularly loudly, Caroline now faints. After a final discussion between the two, Schubert decides to leave his composition unfinished. Then he finally returns home to Vienna.
Production notes
Quietly begging my songs was Willi Forst's first directorial work.
The Vienna Boys' Choir and the Vienna State Opera choir sang , the gypsy band Gyula Horvath played.
The outdoor shots were made in Dürnstein in the Wachau , Spitz an der Donau and in Vienna .
The world premiere took place in Berlin on September 9, 1933 ; the Vienna premiere took place on September 27, 1933.
Gerdago made her film debut here as a costume designer. Julius von Borsody created the buildings. Alfred Norkus was the sound engineer for the film.
An English version entitled The Unfinished Symphony was also produced by Leise beg meine Lieder , which was launched in 1934. There Jaray and Marta Eggerth repeated their roles. Anthony Asquith was assigned to Forst as a dialogue director.
Reviews
'Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst' wrote: “We owe Willi Forst as his first directorial achievement the Schubert film“ Leise flehen meine Lieder ”(1933). He immediately proves self-will here. In the cinematic formation of the operetta and fluctuating material, he does not follow the Dreimäderlhaus traces, but redesigns the film from an anecdotal point of view. "
In the film's large personal lexicon you can read: "With" Leise flehen meine Lieder "Forst made a remarkable debut as a director; his first film was an extremely wistful, sentimental and atmospheric return to the Biedermeier world of Franz Schubert."
The Lexicon of International Films recalled: "When he first directed a film, Forst already betrayed a sense of style, musicality and talent for acting."
Reclam's film guide mentions: "In" Quietly begging my songs "[...] he succeeded in an effective mixture of decorative melancholy and spirited elegance."
Movie quote in Japan
The director Ozu Yasujirō cites two scenes from this film in his film " The Only Son ", which premiered in 1936, as an example of the talkie, which was still new in Japan at the time, called "talkie" in Japan.
See also
Web links
- My songs beckon softly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My songs quietly plead in filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Although the film was made by a purely German production company, the Nazis who had just come to power in Berlin regarded it as an Austrian production, as it was made in a Vienna studio.
- ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. Part 2: The sound film. Berlin 1935. p. 67
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 60.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 5, p. 2204. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ^ Reclam's film guide. By Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 186. Stuttgart 1973.