Revue movie
The revue film is a film genre and closely related to the musical , the operetta and the dance film . The term is mainly used for German and Austrian music and dance films that were made between the 1930s and 1950s .
The films are characterized by light, lively, cheerful entertainment, peppered with recurring singing and dance interludes, predominantly consisting of contemporary hits . The plot is usually based on a romantic comedy , which is often about backstage rehearsals or performances of revues . The revue film can (but does not have to) be a filmed revue of a music theater. The revue film had its greatest popularity during National Socialism , after which it was gradually replaced by the hit film . La Jana , Johannes Heesters and Marika Rökk were among the big stars of the revue film .
Due to the close relationship with the musical, some American film musicals that were made during the same period are sometimes referred to as revue films in German-speaking countries, which, strictly speaking, is not entirely correct, as it is actually a German-speaking genre.
The term “revue film” should not be confused with the term “film revue”. There are also similar terms such as: "Revue Film", a label primarily for Super 8 films, and "Film Revue", the title of a special German film newspaper from the 1940s and 1950s.
List of German-language revue films
- 1935: Make Me Happy (Director: Artur Robison)
- 1936: And you, my darling, are going with me (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1937: Gasparone (Direction: Georg Jacoby)
- 1937: Premiere (Director: Geza von Bolvary)
- 1938: The stars shine (Director: Hans H. Zerlett )
- 1938: Whenever I'm Happy (Director: Carl Lamac )
- 1938: Well, you don't know Korff yet? (Director: Fritz Holl )
- 1938: Hallo Janine (Direction: Carl Boese)
- 1939: One Night in May (Director: Georg Jacoby )
- 1939: We dance around the world (Director: Karl Anton )
- 1939: People from the Varieté (Director: Josef von Baky)
- 1940: Kora Terry (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1940: Dream Music (Direction: Geza von Bolvary)
- 1941: Women are better diplomats (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1941: Always Only You (Director: Karl Anton)
- 1942: I love me (Director: Harald Braun)
- 1942: We make music (Director: Helmut Käutner )
- 1943: Mask in Blue (Director: Paul Martin )
- 1943: Happiness in Women (Director: Peter Paul Brauer )
- 1943: Love premiere (Direction: Arthur Maria Rabenalt)
- 1943: The White Dream (Direction: Géza von Cziffra )
- 1943: Carnival of Love (Director: Paul Martin )
- 1943: A waltz with you (Director: Hubert Marischka)
- 1944: The Woman of My Dreams (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1944: Long live love (Director: Erich Engel)
- 1948: Fregola (Director: Harald Röbbeling)
- 1950: Third from the right (Director: Geza von Cziffra)
- 1950: Spring on the Ice (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1951: Johannes and the 13 beauty queens (Director: Kurt Ulrich)
- 1951: Sensation in San Remo (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1952: The Colorful Dream (Director: Geza von Cziffra)
- 1953: Mask in Blue (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1952: Dancing Stars (Direction: Geza von Cziffra)
- 1953: When the white lilacs bloom again (Director: Hans Deppe )
- 1955: Bonjour Kathrin (Director: Karl Anton)
- 1956: You Are Music (Director: Paul Martin )
- 1956: Symphony in Gold (Director: Franz Antel )
- 1956: The weird Otto (Director: Géza von Cziffra)
- 1957: Casino de Paris (Director: André Hunebelle )
- 1957: Night in the Green Cockatoo (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1958: Clear the stage for Marika (directed by Georg Jacoby)
- 1958: Scala - totally crazy (Director: Erik Ode )
- 1959: The night before the premiere (Director: Georg Jacoby)
- 1959: Traumrevue (Direction: Eduard von Borsody )
- 1959: A thousand stars shine (Director: Harald Philipp )
- 1961: Buy yourself a colorful balloon (Director: Geza von Cziffra)
- 1961: A star falls from the sky (Director: Geza von Cziffra)
- 1964: The Great Freestyle (Director: Franz Antel )
- 1967: The great happiness (Director: Franz Antel)
literature
- Helga Belach: We dance around the world. German revue films 1933–1945 . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1979.