Noisy melodies
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Noisy melodies |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler |
| script | Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Johann Strauss |
| camera | Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler |
| cut | Ursula Kahlbaum |
| occupation | |
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Rushing melodies (Alternative title: (The) bat ) is a German musical film of the DEFA of Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler from the year 1955 . It is based on the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss .
action
Notary Falke was recently appointed by Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein embarrassed after a drinking bout and now wants to take revenge playfully. Last but not least, he hopes to make Prince Orlofsky laugh again after a few weeks. Meanwhile, Gabriel doesn't feel like laughing. He is said to have been behind bars for several days for insulting an official. Falke asks prison guard Frank for a reprieve: Gabriel is supposed to take part in Prince Orlofsky's dance that evening for his revenge and not start his prison sentence until the next morning. To thank him, Falke hands him an invitation to the prince's ball. Frank is said to take the name of a French nobleman. Invitations received without their knowing of each other, including Gabriel, who is supposed to appear under the name of a French nobleman, his wife Rosalinde, her maid Adele and Rosalinde's lover, the tenor Alfred. Gabriel pretends to have been arrested earlier and is now secretly going to the ball. Frank is said to be at the ministry meeting, while Adele brings a sick aunt in front of him so that he can secretly go to the ball. Rosalinde, on the other hand, agrees that the house is empty: she can meet Alfred this undisturbed.
At the ball, Frank and Gabriel meet, who have never met before and are now pretending to be interested because they also consider the other to be French. Gabriel in turn sees Adele, who is introduced to him as Olga, and wants to conquer her. Adele, on the other hand, mistakenly believes that Frank is a theater director and is now looking for his closeness, because she wants to make it big on stage like her sister. Falke signals to prison director Frank that Gabriel, as the French official, will inspect his prison the next morning. Frank now wants to immediately lift Gabriel Eisenstein's detention. He drives to Gabriel's house, where he finds Rosalinde with Alfred, mistaking him for Gabriel and imprisoning him. Rosalinde is now alone and decides to go to the prince's ball wearing a mask. Here she presents herself as a Hungarian countess, sings a song and lets her husband flirt with her. She manages to take his pocket watch from him before she goes home early.
The next morning, Frank appears in his prison office, hungover. Alfred complained all night. Now Adele and her sister appear and want to audition for the supposed theater director. Prison guard Frosch, in turn, thinks both of them are criminals and locks them in a cell. A short time later, Gabriel appears and he and Frank reveal their incognito. Gabriel is shaken when he learns that his wife has cheated on him with Alfred, but shortly afterwards Rosalinde shows him his pocket watch, which she has taken from him as a supposed Hungarian countess. He, too, was never quite loyal. Alfred, Adele and their sister are released from prison and notary Falke clears up the entire comedy of mistake as staged by him. Prince Orlofsky was amused by the entanglements. In the end, Gabriel begins his prison sentence as stated in the judgment, while Rosalinde and the others continue to celebrate.
production
Rauschende Melodies was filmed in the Babelsberg studio from 1954 as DEFA's first operetta film. The costumes were created by Hans Kieselbach , the film structures were created by Artur Günther . The film premiered on May 20, 1955 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin and in the DEFA-Filmtheater Kastanienallee, and was shown in GDR cinemas on the same day. With around 5 million viewers, Rauschende Melodien is one of the most popular DEFA films in the GDR. On May 27, 1955, the film was shown for the first time in the experimental program of the Berlin TV Center on GDR television and was released on DVD in 2009.
criticism
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler questioned the extent to which subjects like Die Fledermaus should be filmed at all in socialism and asked polemically: “Isn't the cinema-goer Lieschen Würtz happy that the stupid 'problems' of these parasites are resolved happily and finally in good pleasure ? "
The film-dienst called Rauschende Melodien "not very ambitious in terms of staging, sometimes comedic in terms of performance." For Cinema it was a "lame" film adaptation of an operetta.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 474-475 .
Web links
- Rushing melodies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rushing melodies at filmportal.de
- Lush melodies at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ See insidekino.de
- ↑ Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler in: Filmspiegel , No. 11, 1955, p. 3.
- ↑ Noisy melodies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de