Make the world a paradise for me
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| Original title | Make the world a paradise for me |
| Country of production | Germany , Sweden |
| Publishing year | 1930 |
| length | 100 minutes |
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| Director | Paul Merzbach |
| script | Paul Merzbach, Walter Reisch |
| production | Film AB Minerva, Stockholm, Hisa-Film, Berlin |
| music | Jules Sylvain |
| camera | Julius Jaenzon |
| cut | Paul Merzbach |
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Make the world a paradise for me is a black and white , German - Swedish drama by Paul Merzbach from 1930 .
action
Robert and Isabell Keller have been married for a year, but luck has not come. Roberts' excessive enthusiasm for sports causes his wife to suffer not only emotionally but also financially. Her small income as a secretary in a variety agency cannot compensate for the loss of earnings of Robert, who prefers to hang around at sporting events than to pursue a regular job, which is why the mountain of debt is growing and the most essential needs for living can just be covered.
The fur trader Lanner, whose courtesy Isabell can only thank for her fur coat, has run out of patience and sends her nephew Gunnar to the artist agency to get Isabell's source of income for her money. When Gunnar wants to put forward his request, the agency manager and a theater director who is currently present, who think he is an artist looking for work, force him to sing something. Gunnar clears up the misunderstanding afterwards, but everyone involved is so amused that the idea for a revue , for which the obviously talented Gunnar is immediately committed, is born.
The revue was a huge success, which attracted a manager who offered him a lucrative contract overseas, but which included the clause to remain unbound for the next five years. Gunnar enjoyed the stage success, but also the encounters and even appointments with Isabell, because of which he does not accept the offer.
Contrary to expectations, Robert has accepted a job as a sales representative. Upon his return from a trade trip, he notices that his wife and Gunnar are not indifferent to each other. In a discussion with Gunnar, he tries to convince him that his hopes for Isabell have no chance of success. Spontaneously persuaded by friends to go on a football tour to Italy, Robert hastily wrote a letter to Isabell in which he spoke of "shots", by which he meant shots on goal , but caused Isabell to fear for Gunnar's life. Gunnar realizes that Isabell loves him too, and they become a couple.
production
The film Make the world a paradise for me was shot in the Filmstaden film studios in Solna near Stockholm ; Outdoor recordings took place on site in Stockholm and the surrounding area. The cameraman was Julius Jaenzon ; Axel Witzansky was responsible for the choreography of the music recordings . As was customary at the time, the film was shot in several language versions. The main actor Gösta Ekman played in the Swedish and German versions of the film.
The film had its German premiere on September 12, 1930 in the Primus-Filmpalast in Berlin .
Film music
- Isabell, oh Isabell (Åh, Isabell) , composition: Jules Sylvain , German text: Walter Reisch and Armin Robinson , vocals: Gösta Ekman
- You make the world into paradise (För hennes skull) , composition: Jules Sylvain, German text: Walter Reisch and Armin Robinson, vocals: Gösta Ekman
- Because of you, the sky is blue , composition: Jules Sylvain, text: Robert Gilbert and Armin Robinson
Trivia
- The script is based on the volume of memoirs Den tänkande August ( German : The thinking August ) by Gösta Ekman.
- Only the Swedish version contains a longer sequence of a soccer game with the Swedish soccer star Per “Pära” Kaufeldt .
Web links
- Carry the world to me to paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Make the world a paradise for me in the database of the Svenska Filminstitutet (English / Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Freund: Make the world a paradise for me . In: Illustrierter Film-Kurier . No. 141 . Film propaganda, Vienna 1930.
- ^ A b Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films . 1st year 1929,30 (= Deutsche Tonfilme - Lexicon of full-length German-language feature films (1929–1945), chronologically ordered according to the dates of the premieres in Germany as well as the feature films produced in Germany but not shown to the public . Volume 1 ). 1st edition. Ulrich J. Klaus-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-927352-00-4 , Mach 'mir die Welt zum Paradies, p. 121 f .