Nanon (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Nanon |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Herbert Maisch |
| script |
Eberhard Keindorff Georg Zoch |
| production |
Max Pfeiffer for UFA |
| music | Alois Melichar |
| camera | Konstantin Irmen-Tschet |
| cut | Carl Otto Bartning |
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Nanon is a German mix-up comedy by Herbert Maisch from 1938. It is based on motifs from the operetta Nanon by Richard Genée and F. Zell from 1877.
action
Nanon Godmother, the landlady of the “Golden Lamb”, is delighted: She wants to marry her lover, the Tambour Grignon, in the evening and has already ordered the posse and the pastor. Only Grignon has no inkling of this and is dismayed when faced with a fait accompli. Shortly before he says yes, his friends appear to have him arrested for dueling - a crime that is punishable by death by decree of the king. Desperate, Nanon went to Paris with the theater manager Molière to beg the king's pardon.
What Nanon does not know is that Grignon is actually the noble Marquis Charles d'Aubigné, who had bet with his friends that he could conquer Nanon, which is considered an "impregnable fortress". Nanon manages to get the king to sign a blank pardon as part of a play. With this she wants to get Grignon out of prison and now learns that he was never imprisoned and that in reality only one game was played with her. She visits Charles d'Aubigné at a garden party, where he has just exposed the nephew of the police prefect, Hector, as a con man. He had found a song that Charles had written for Nanon and passed it off as his own - for the wealthy Ninon de l'Enclos, a friend of Charles'. After Charles joins Hector's recital, Nanon also joins the song. Charles' friends make fun of her. When Hector insults her, Charles challenges him to a duel. Both men are arrested a little later during a duel.
Meanwhile, Nanon has returned to her inn and no longer wants to hear from the men. Molière appears and tells her that Charles should really be sentenced to death. She returns to Paris and, with the royal pardon, takes him out of prison. The king, in turn, has had enough of Charles's antics and decided that he would have to marry a Countess Delicat, unknown to him, that same evening. However, Charles now knows that he loves Nanon and flees with her to the border. He is arrested by the police in front of the border and taken to the king. He shows him the wife and countess destined for him - it is Nanon who appears adorned in front of Charles. While Charles and Nanon embrace, the king is delighted with his successful prank, and Molière admits that the comedy could almost have been made by himself.
production
Nanon was filmed on the Babelsberg outdoor area from June 25 to September 1938. The film was approved by the censors as "free for children over 14 years" and had its premiere on November 15, 1938 in the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg. In the FSK test in 1954, the film received the rating “from 16 years / not holiday-free”.
In the film, which is loosely based on the operetta of the same name, various songs are sung:
- Once upon a time there was a fine gentleman
- Today is the best day of my life
- Alluring violins, tender songs
- I've never been as in love as I am today
criticism
The film-dienst called Nanon an “operetta film tailored to the important coloratura soprano Erna Sack and Johannes Heesters as her tenor partner, cheerful and romantic, costumed, not particularly original”.
See also
Web links
- Nanon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nanon at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nanon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .