Santa Lucia (1956)

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Movie
Original title Santa Lucia
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Werner Jacobs
script Helmut Weiss
Ursula Bloy
production Willy Zeyn junior
music Willy Mattes
camera Oskar Schnirch
cut Lisbeth Neumann-Kleinert
occupation

Santa Lucia is a German feature film by Werner Jacobs from 1956. In addition to Vico Torriani and Eva Kerbler , the main roles are starring Peer Schmidt , Karin Dor and Hubert von Meyerinck . The film poster had the headline at the time: "Magically beautiful - full of music and love."

action

Mario Zozoli is a happy donkey driver in sunny Italy who loves to sing for life. That alone cannot raise the money for his little house. Together with Manina, a passionate but also very jealous young woman, he is planning a wedding for both of them as soon as the house is ready to move into. But one day he has the opportunity to capitalize on his voice. Countess Yvonne von Fouqué, with a posh and elegant car including a chauffeur called Tutu, gives Mario hopes in this direction. She is supported by another companion named Aristide, of whom nobody knows what role he is playing. Only Manina suspects that nothing good can come of this story.

With a guitar set with glittering stones as a gift, Mario is persuaded to accompany the countess and her companions to France to perform in Paris. It is only strange that when crossing the border, the entire car is taken apart, but none of the customs officers pay attention to the guitar. It is also astonishing that Mario's performances take place in a cheap cellar and he suddenly has to give the guitar back to the Countess and her companions. Suddenly there are even two guitars that look absolutely alike. As the situation becomes more and more opaque, Mario decides to no longer play the game and flees. A decisive factor for this is a conversation he overheard between the so-called Countess and her companions, during which it turns out that Yvonne von Fouqué and Aristide are a married couple and that Tutu is the young woman's father. Of course, his escape does not go undiscovered for long, and the trio, assuming that Mario has taken the guitar that has been prepared with the real diamonds, pursues him to the limit. The criminal police have been on the trail of the crooks for a long time and are arresting the criminals who had the guitar with the diamonds in the car with them all the time, believing that it was the wrong one.

For Mario, however, there is a happy ending that means far more to him than the guitar, Manina forgives him and accepts his marriage proposal.

production

Production notes

Santa Lucia was shot on Eastmancolor by the production company Willy-Zeyn-Film GmbH . The film was shot in the Gulf of Salerno , near Amalfi and Ravello . Gloria GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG from Ilse Kubaschewski and Luggi Waldleitner was responsible for the distribution.

Werner Jacobs offered the Swiss singer Vico Torriani his “first serious role” in a street serenade in 1953 , after he had previously only been seen in short scenes in feature films as a “song-singing musician”. It was said that Torriani had to cope with the first scenes with a temperature of 40 degrees.

Vico Torriani sings the five songs by Willy Mattes and Günther Schwenn :

  • Santa Lucia (O you my Napoli)
  • Manina-Mandonnina
  • That certain O-La-La
  • The little donkey song
  • Do you love me? such as
  • Arriverderci Roma , Foxtrot by Renato Rascel and Pietro Garinei

Publications

The film premiered on July 20, 1956 in the Ufa-Palast cinema in Essen. In the first program of the DFF was Santa Lucia sent the first time on February 16 1970th In Greece the film was released under the title Arrivederci Roma .

Santa Lucia was released on June 15, 2018 by Alive as part of the "Jewels of Film History" series on DVD.

The soundtrack was released by Decca Records in 1959 .

criticism

The lexicon of international films described the film as a “rogue comedy with an Italian background” and “simple-minded, gaudy music entertainment”.

At the start of the DVD, Filmjuwelen.de wrote: “Magical scenery and lively songs in a film full of fun and excitement. A cheerful film experience for young and old by Werner Jacobs. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Santa Lucia movie poster from 1956 at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ a b Santa Lucia see page filmreporter.de
  3. ↑ Santa Lucia Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Karin Dor, Vico Torriani) at filmportal.de
  4. ↑ Santa Lucia Soundtrack see page soundtrackcollector.com
  5. ↑ Santa Lucia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 5, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Santa Lucia see page picclick.de (including several film images)