Sensation in San Remo

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Movie
Original title Sensation in San Remo
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1951
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Georg Jacoby
script Kurt Werner
production Junge Union-Film Rolf Meyer , Hamburg
music Willy Mattes
Theo Nordhaus
camera Bruno Mondi
cut Martha Dübber
occupation

Sensation in San Remo is a German revue film by Georg Jacoby from 1951. The main roles are starring Marika Rökk and Peter Pasetti .

action

The Feldmann family is in financial difficulties: Because the bank has canceled their loan, they have to raise 20,000 marks within a very short time to pay off the mortgage. Otherwise there is a risk of losing the house. Professor Feldmann, his wife and the children Cornelia, Barbara and Ernst are desperate, especially since Barbara and Ernst would now have to drop out of their studies and Cornelia did not earn enough as a sports teacher at Haus Sonneneck. She regularly works overtime there. After her work, she also visits the sick woman Mückebein every day, who is in a sanatorium. One day Cornelia's superior director Koch appears at her home because she has taken the library key from the boarding school. Barbara offers to get the key from Cornelia in the sanatorium, but they do not know about Cornelia or a Frau Mückebein there. The next day, Barbara secretly follows her sister and is surprised that she disappears into the night bar Musette in her evening costume . There Cornelia appears as a singer under the name "Corrie Walden". Barbara is enthusiastic and lets herself be hired as a cigarette seller in the nightclub. In front of her father, she claims to work as a night nurse in the sanatorium.

In the Musette , Cornelia met the composer Robert Valenta, whose songs she sang. He wants to go on a big tour with her and make her a star and is irritated when Cornelia refuses his offer. Neither their parents nor their colleagues are allowed to find out about their double life. One day, when furs and other valuables were stolen from the Musette , the police announced a passport control of the employees. Because that would make her double life known, Cornelia secretly flees. For Robert she is now a thief, but he repeats his offer to take her on tour. He will shortly have an appearance at the International Competition of Dance Bands Sensation in San Remo on the Riviera. After some hesitation, Cornelia agrees to accompany him as a singer, but claims in front of her parents that she was invited on a vacation trip.

In San Remo, Robert's suitcases are seized because he has tax debts in the country. Cornelia can secretly take one of the suitcases, but it only contains Robert's compositions that have previously been rejected by publishers and producers. Cornelia likes the pieces and so she rehearses the songs of a revue. To fend off Robert's advances, she pretends to be married, but falls in love with him shortly afterwards and the two become a couple. Cornelia takes over Robert's finances and soon the only thing missing is the profit of Sensation in San Remo , so that Robert is free of debt. On the day of the competition, Cornelia meets director Koch in the performance hotel. She pretends to be a vacationer and cancels Robert from the performance. Because Robert withdraws his entire registration, Cornelia changes her mind and sings at the festival. You and Robert win the first prize and the producers now scramble for Robert's works and the singer "Corrie Walden". At the urging of Director Koch, who does not consider San Remo a good place to stay for young women, Cornelia has to go back home on the day of the competition. Robert can only find her again with the help of a private detective. Despite risking her job, Cornelia ends up agreeing to appear in Robert's new revue. She shares her pangs of conscience with her sister, who writes to Aunt Emma , a letter to the editor in her newspaper, who always has advice on all questions. Little does she suspect that behind the always clever Aunt Emma is her own father, who earns a little extra money. He now knows that Cornelia works as a revue singer and persuades his wife to go to the theater again. Barbara and Ernst are also in the audience at the revue's premiere. When Professor Feldmann, apparently indignant, goes to Cornelia's cloakroom during the break, everything dissolves in favor. He admits that he is a mom and pop and that he really only has one wish: that Cornelia Robert marries. Since both were planning to do this anyway, it all comes to a happy ending and the revue is also a great success.

Production, publication

Sensation in San Remo is based on a film novella by Curt J. Braun . The film was shot under the working titles Glück im Spiel and Liebe - a little crazy from April 9, 1951 in the Hamburg-Bendestorf studio. The outdoor shots were taken on the Italian Riviera , u. a. in San Remo . Trude Ulrich created the costumes and Erich Kettelhut designed the film . The film's assistant camera was Joachim Hasler .

The film had its German premiere on September 6, 1951 in the Apollo in Düsseldorf . Shortly after the cinema release, a scene had to be removed from the film in which Marika Rökk is dancing Charleston on a table while the moral inspectors around her react critically. Kurt Jooss was able to prove in court that the scene is too close to his dance drama Der Grüne Tisch , shown in the 1930s . Marika Rökk was already 38 years old when the film appeared, her film father, played by Ewald Balser , was just 53 years old in 1951, so that the actual age difference between film father and film daughter was just 15 years.

Hans Fritz Beckmann wrote the lyrics in the film . The band Juan Llossas , the band Cab Caye and the dance and entertainment orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk will play . Marika Rökk sings the songs in the film. Let little Otto take over , Signor, I'm a Signora , I dream of great love , We'll dance Charleston again and you are the first .

criticism

For the film service , Sensation in San Remo was “opulently equipped, but tough in the plot and inadequate in the color dramaturgy”. Due to Marika Rökk's dance performances, the film is nevertheless a "largely entertaining revue film". “Box-office speculative, medium-sized revue, music and love film in Agfacolor, ” summarized Der Spiegel .

At that time , cinema focuses on the zeitgeist in the Federal Republic of 1951, when morality was "extremely prudish and also uptight" five years after the end of the war. Under these “splendid circumstances”, the “Sensation in San Remo”, which is “completely tailored to Marika Rökk and at the same time speculating for good cash,” is a film that “fits like a fist in the eye in the early fifties”. The “demands on the art of film” were “not particularly high” at this time, “and the film is definitely a good vehicle for Marika Rökk's appearance”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 216
  2. ^ Bombs against San Remo In: Der Spiegel , No. 39, 1951, pp. 28-29.
  3. ↑ a b Sensation in San Remo Information about the film with ill. Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 1220
    (in the picture Marika Rökk, Peter Pasetti)
  4. ↑ Sensation in San Remo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ New in Germany: Sensation in San Remo In: Der Spiegel , No. 37 of September 12, 1951, p. 30.