Operetta (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | operetta |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Willi Forst |
| script |
Axel Eggebrecht Willi Forst |
| production |
Willi Forst for Vienna Film ( Karl Hartl ) |
| music |
Willy Schmidt-Gentner templates from Franz von Suppè , Johann Strauss (son) and Karl Millöcker |
| camera |
Hans Schneeberger Sepp Ketterer (Assistant) |
| cut | Hans Wolff |
| occupation | |
| |
Operetta is a German music film by director, leading actor and producer Willi Forst from 1940. It premiered on December 20, 1940 in Vienna and on January 16, 1941 in Berlin .
action
The penniless actor Franz Jauner becomes a director at the Theater an der Wien through the protection of the director Marie Geistinger . Despite successful cooperation, they fall out. After the disappointing premiere of the operetta Die Fledermaus at the Theater an der Wien, Jauner manages a successful surprise production in the restaurant Zur Tigerhöhle .
Jauner goes to the Carltheater , where he celebrates triumphs with operettas. Geistinger, who is secretly in love with him, is left behind. The two see each other again in Hans Makart's artist studio . Geistinger is derogatory about the supposedly inferior operetta genre, which is why she wants to move to Berlin. Jauner, who praises the joie de vivre emanating from the operetta, remains alone.
Geistinger becomes a celebrated actress in the character field , Jauner is promoted to director of the Vienna Court Opera . On the occasion of Geistinger's engagement to Prince Esterhazy, they get together again and, after a musical exchange of blows, discover that they have both been unfaithful to the operetta.
Jauner becomes artistic director at the Ringtheater , but after a devastating fire at its first premiere, he has to go to prison for three months. The outlawed by the audience then tries in vain to find a place in the theater again. Geistinger, who in the meantime had to give up her acting career due to damage to the vocal cords and the airways, takes care of the bitter Jauner. She attends the premiere of his production of the operetta The Gypsy Baron and demonstratively draws the applause of the audience on him with a “Cheer, Jauner!”.
background
On the occasion of the premiere of his film, Forst stated that he had originally only wanted to film the life of the composer Franz von Suppè . During his preparatory work, however, he changed this concept in order to focus on an entire epoch with Jauner. At the same time he expressed the hope that his film could give the operetta a new impetus in general.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : "Swinging and carefully staged."
Awards
Operetta received the ratings "artistically valuable" and "culturally valuable" from the film testing agency .
See also
literature
- Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a Genre 1914–1945. edition text + criticism. Boorberg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Wedel: Der deutsche Musikfilm , p. 404
- ↑ Operetta. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 21, 2017 .
Web links
- Operetta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Operetta at Filmportal.de
- Operetta Complete film at the Deutsche Filmothek