Schlagerparade (film)

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Movie
Original title Hit parade
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Ode
script Hans Fritz Köllner
Aldo von Pinelli
production Heinz-Joachim Ewert
music Fred Freed
Heino Gaze
Michael Jary
Peter Kreuder
camera Richard fear
cut Hermann Leitner
Wolfgang Wehrum
occupation

Schlagerparade is a German music film by Erik Ode from 1953.

action

The young musician Walter Lorenz earns his living as a piano player at the Hochstätter Conservatory. Occasionally he gets smaller jobs that his friend, the singer Sherry Sommer, gives him. When the Roxy revue theater needs an arranger for one of its plays, Walter steps in. He spontaneously presented his new piece Das kleine Liebeskarussell to the music director , but was thrown out because he appeared to the director as a competitor. Because Walter is convinced that he will certainly have success with a big name, he introduces himself to the music publisher Otto Bonnhoff as a supposed South American superstar del Cordes, who is impressed by the piece, but throws Walter out when the dizziness is noticed. Walter owes it to the insightful landlady Mrs. Gabler, with whose daughter Angelika Walter is friends, that he still has a roof over his head, since he has not been able to pay rent for months. His lover Barbara also stands by him in difficult times.

During a trip where Angelika and her new admirer, the department store salesman Max Balduweit, are allowed to spend time together under Walter's supervision, Walter comes up with a new song that he calls Be nice to me . On Balduweit's mediation, he is allowed to start as a salesman in the music department of the department store. He is popular with customers, but is fired after he has finished composing his piece Be nice to me on a piano that is for sale one night . Even if the song is good, nobody wants to buy it. Walter therefore gives the notes to Barbara, although he would much rather tear them up. Barbara presented the song to Otto Bonnhoff as a piece by the well-known composer Fred Pauli and it was soon a great success. Nobody believes Walter that the piece to be heard on the radio is actually his, so that he soon believes himself that he has simply used a familiar melody in his piece. Barbara finally admits the dizziness and Walter leaves, furious. Fred Pauli, in turn, makes it clear to Otto Bonnhoff that he did not write the piece and Barbara tells Pauli the truth. Pauli mediates her as a supposedly French star dancer at the Roxy . To avoid a scandal due to fraud, Walter again signs a Lied waiver with Bonnhoff. However, he doesn't want to know anything more about Barbara, the music and the music show Starparade , to which his friends want to go, and goes to bed sick.

Barbara finally brings Walter to the show through a trick. After numerous stars with dancing and singing, the most successful hit of the month is announced: It is about Be nice to me . Fred Pauli, who is asked to take the stage as the composer, announces to the audience that in reality Walter was the composer. He gave him a chance under his name to prove his skills. Walter is received on stage with great applause and finally conducts his song, which his friend Sherry Sommer sings.

production

Schlagerparade was produced by Melodie-Film in Berlin. The film was shot in the Berlin Union-Film Studios and the CCC studios in Berlin, the outdoor shots were shot in Berlin-Wannsee . Trude Ulrich created the costumes . The film had its premiere on November 3, 1953 at the World Games in Hanover . It was first shown on German television on February 5, 1967 on ZDF .

Numerous artists appear in the film:

Also performing are : Fred Freed , Stan Kenton and his orchestra, Barnabás von Géczy and his soloists, Werner Müller and the RIAS dance orchestra, the Paris harmonica soloists, Macky Kasper and his trumpet as well as Joe Furtner , Detlev Lais , Else Klement and Erwin Biegel .

Reviews

  • The film presented "Schlager ... from the day before yesterday [...] in the context of a foolish comedy act", wrote the film service .
  • Der Spiegel found that the film "tries breathlessly todance after the ' American in Paris ' [...] this bitter ambition in association with the convulsively grafted celebrities finally brings down the otherwise likeable film [...]." The lovers Damar / Giller are however "sweet and fresh".
  • Film-Echo magazine praised the “mass presence of international singers, virtuosos and orchestras” and the “undemanding, but entertaining and fun plot”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach . Volume 2: 1946-1955, p. 365
  2. ↑ hit parade . In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ New in Germany: Schlager Parade . In: Der Spiegel , No. 50, 1953, p. 29.
  4. ^ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 118