Last Love (1935)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Last love |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Schulz |
| script |
Heinz Goldberg Norbert Garay Richard Arvay based on an idea by Heinz Goldberg |
| production |
Erich Morawsky Rudi Loewenthal |
| music |
Franz Salmhofer Richard Tauber (vocals) Karl Alwin |
| camera | Willy Goldberger |
| cut | Paul Falkenberg |
| occupation | |
and the Vienna Philharmonic | |
Last Love is an Austrian film drama starring the actor couple Albert and Else Bassermann, who fled Hitler's Germany . Other leading actors were the Jewish artists Hans Jaray and Oskar Karlweis , who also fled the Nazis and returned to Austria, and the Japanese Michiko Meinl . Acting colleague Fritz Schulz directed it .
action
Thomas Bruck, an aging composer, is returning to his native Vienna after a decade of absence. As before, he moved in with his old friend Hanna von Hooven, who also devoted all of her love to music. The singing teacher lives under one roof with her son Walter, who has made a name for himself as a conductor. Hanna realizes that old Bruck has changed a lot and has not been composing for a long time. One day, through Hanna, Thomas met her student, the young Japanese girl Namiko Sanada. Bruck is fascinated by the sound of her singing voice and soon falls in love with the woman, who is decades younger than him, without explaining himself to her. This deep affection soon proves to be an inspiration, and Thomas is now starting to compose again after a long time. Soon he wrote an opera, the main part of which is to sing Namiko. Walter, who knows nothing about Thomas' feelings towards the Japanese, suggests the famous opera diva Corelli for the lead role and cannot understand why Bruck rejects this suggestion. This leads to a tangible row between the old and the young artist.
The director of the Vienna State Opera agrees with Bruck's opinion that Namiko is the ideal cast for the new piece, and so the rehearsals with the young singer finally begin. The close cooperation between the Japanese and her conductor Walter von Hooven leads to Walter giving up his resistance to Namiko and falling in love with her. This is mutual. This painful development does not remain hidden from Bruck, but he knows that there is nothing he can do about it. As he strolls through the streets of Vienna, lost in thought, he is hit by a car and seriously injured. When Hanna sees her son and Namiko in intimate togetherness in their cloakroom, she suspects the connections and understands why this terrible accident had to happen. Namiko was not only Bruck's last love, he also made his feelings the title of his artistic farewell work, which now has to be premiered in Vienna as “Unfinished”. “Last Love” becomes a triumphant success and paves Namiko a great singing career. But when she learns of the connections, she believes that she is partly to blame for Bruck's death and refuses to love Walter. She leaves Vienna without a word of explanation and without saying goodbye.
Production notes
Last Love was created from November 20, 1934 to January 1935 in the Tobis-Sascha studio in Vienna-Rosenhügel and was premiered on February 28, 1935 in Vienna. In view of the strong Jewish participation (director Fritz Schulz, the scriptwriters, producer Rudi Loewenthal , cameraman Willy Goldberger , film editor Paul Falkenberg ) there was no German premiere in Hitler's Germany.
Karl Ehrlich took over the production management, Artur Berger and Alfred Kunz designed the film structures implemented by Emil Stepanek . Kunz also designed the costumes. Alfred Norkus provided the sound . Karl Paryla made his debut in front of the camera here.
Last Love was just one of two films awarded the title "culturally valuable" by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education.
music
The following music tracks were played:
- I will not let my dreams be forbidden
- Only where the whole heart calls you!
- And yet we love you, land of our fathers
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A really small fable with prerequisites that can only be grasped emotionally, a lot of milieu-like and musical detail, which, not always related by the director, acts as a retarding passage. On the other hand, the presentation is very excellent: Jaray the genius Bassermann is a worthy opponent, Michiko Meinl, unstarred, internalized, almost cautious. (...) Undoubtedly above average. "
On film.at it says: "Last love captivates with its gloomy, fate-laden atmosphere and comes up with a multitude of big names."
Web links
- Last love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Last love at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Last love in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from August 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Last love on film.at
