Music in Salzburg
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| Original title | Music in Salzburg |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 106 minutes |
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| Director | Herbert Maisch |
| script | Otto Ernst Hesse |
| production | Otto Lehmann (production group) |
| music | Alois Melichar |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Gertrud Hinz |
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Music in Salzburg is a German feature film from 1944 by Herbert Maisch . The main roles are played by Willy Birgel , Lil Dagover , Hans Nielsen and Thea Weis .
action
It is festival season in the Mozart city of Salzburg . The just 18-year-old Elisabeth Häberlin comes by car to the side of her friend Dr. Franz Mädler here when he loses his jacket with car keys, money and identification documents on a bridge over the Salzach , which plops into the river and swims away. While Franz really wants to contact his uncle after this mishap to have money transferred and rent a hotel room, Elisabeth says that she wants to explore the tourist city on her own. In truth, however, she wants to try to get autographs from all the prominent music artists who are guest here in order to be able to monetize them later. The famous Café Tomaselli seems to be the right place for this, because the entire Salzburg music celebrity romps there during the festival season. She also meets the general music director Anton Klinger there, who willingly bequeaths his autograph to her, as he likes Elisabeth's youthful, carefree manner. After years of absence, Klinger has just returned to Salzburg, accompanied by his long-time partner, the celebrated opera singer Ursula Sanden.
He and Mrs. Sanden met and fell in love eight years ago in Salzburg when he had just conducted the Salzburg Philharmonic. Since then, the two have been traveling a lot, because his Ursula is a guest artist and appears in all the major opera houses in the world. Meanwhile, Franz Mädler is in a lot of trouble because the police had seen him trying to break into his own car, without any keys or documents, in order to at least get hold of the suitcase. The policeman watching him, of course, does not believe a word of the story with the lost jacket and takes him to the police station, where the young man has to spend the next night behind bars. In the meantime, Elisabeth has run after her new acquaintance, Anton Klinger, because she accidentally pocketed the fountain pen that she used to sign autographs. The aging charmer learns from the young girl why Elisabeth is currently without money and accommodation and invites her to a musical performance and then to a friend's home. There the young woman inspired Klinger to compose a romantic waltz.
Things will soon come to a head. While Franz gets his clothes back from an old fisherman who fished them out of the Salzach and handed them over to the police, the jealous Ursula Sanden becomes active because she doesn't like the flirtation between her partner and the very young Elisabeth at all. She makes a scene for Klinger and even tries to turn the head of the much younger girl. But none of it helps. While Elisabeth and Franz, who finally meet again at the station, finally separate, Elisabeth and the general music director find each other. Ursula Sanden finally realizes that it is no longer love that connects her with Klinger and leaves Salzburg to take on a new commitment elsewhere, now in Vienna, and to focus entirely on her artistic career.
Production notes
Shooting began on September 16, 1942 and ended in August 1943. The shooting took place in Salzburg (exterior shots), including in the Festspielhaus and in Getreidegasse (with the house where Mozart was born). The premiere took place on September 8, 1944, the Berlin premiere was on September 26, 1944 in the Palladium. The television premiere took place on July 27, 1986 on Bavarian radio.
Production group leader Otto Lehmann also took over the production and production management. Max Mellin designed the film structures realized by Gerhard Ladner , Gerda Leopold the costumes. Herbert Sennewald was the unit manager, Bruno Suckau took care of the sound. Hans Nielsen , the actor who played Dr. Mädler, also worked as Herbert Maisch's assistant director.
The production costs amounted to about 2,149,000 RM, making music in Salzburg a comparatively expensive film. Nevertheless, after only five months of playing (until February 1945), the flick was able to bring in 1,857,000 RM.
criticism
The film service ruled: "A love film that is remote from reality, designed as entertainment during the last months of the war."
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films 13th year 1944/45. P. 85 (045.44), Berlin 2002
- ^ Music in Salzburg. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 26, 2019 .
See also
Web links
- Music in Salzburg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Music in Salzburg at filmportal.de