Street serenade
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Street serenade |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Jacobs |
| script | Helmut Weiss based on a template by Max Neufeld |
| production | Neue Münchner Lichtspielkunst GmbH (Neue Emelka ), Munich Willy Zeyn -Film GmbH, Munich |
| music |
Willy Mattes Hans Lang Benny de Weille |
| camera | Erich Claunigk |
| cut | Luise Dreyer-Sachsenberg |
| occupation | |
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Street Serenade (alternative title: Street singers from Naples ) is a German music film in black and white from 1953 by Werner Jacobs . The script is by Helmut Weiss . It is based on a template by Max Neufeld . The main roles are occupied by Vico Torriani , Sybil Werden and Rolf Wanka . The film first hit the cinemas on November 24, 1953.
action
Since the bus driver Mario lost his job because of an accident he was responsible for, he has been working as a street singer in order to be able to pay off his debts with the crook Sachetti. One day, Wanda Siria, the great dance star of the Odeon, and her colleague Gino Ferro, a well-known pop singer, notice the young talent's beautiful voice. Because Gino has not performed for a year due to a larynx and can no longer sing about records, the REGINA record company got into financial difficulties. Now Gino thought of releasing new records with Mario as Gino Ferro.
After the plan worked with great success, Director Bartoli insists that Gino fulfill his contract. But now Mario doesn't want to get the chestnuts out of the fire for his new friend. He wants to quickly see his Nina, the daughter of the impoverished music professor Sandora, who trained him. However, the girl rejects him because Mario refuses to justify his absence for weeks. But now Gino has reason to cheer: On the stage of the Odeon, he can be synchronized by the invisible Mario. Nobody notices the dizziness, except for Professor Sandora, who internalized the voice of his former student.
By chance, the crook Sachetti gets wind of the matter. He then tries to blackmail the head of the record company. When this fails, he rushes backstage at the next performance and silences Mario. Gino is shocked, but there is also something good about the shock: suddenly he has his voice back and sings more beautifully than ever before. Sachetti doesn't give up that easily, however. He inaugurates the press, and the next day you can read in the newspapers how the visitors to the Odeon were betrayed. Then Wanda had the saving idea of how she could avert the threatening scandal: She arranged a “beggar concert” with vagabond songs that were once written by Professor Sandora, sung by Gino and Mario. Numerous journalists have already taken their seats in the hall. You sense a sensation. Suddenly Wanda steps in front of the audience and explains that it was just an advertising ploy by the record company that wanted to make their new singer Mario Monti big. Both the press and the general public understand. A new star in the hit sky is born.
Production notes
The film was produced in the Bavaria Film studio in Geiselgasteig and in the Carlton studio in Tulbeckstrasse . The exterior shots were taken in Genoa , Nervi , Camogli and Rapallo . The buildings were created by Franz Bi and Bruno Monden , while production management was in the hands of Willy Zeyn and Erwin Gitt .
music
The following hits are performed in the film :
- "Amore, Amore - Italian overnight", music: Willy Mattes, text: Fred Rauch
- “Bravo… Bravo… almost like Caruso!”, Music: Benny de Weille, text: Hans Bradtke
- “I can only yodel when I'm in love”, music: Willy Mattes, text: Fred Rauch
- “Tango der Nacht”, music: Hans Lang, text: Erich Meder
- “Through the world without money”, music: Willy Mattes, text: Ralph Maria Siegel
criticism
The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "Lightweight entertainment with colorful landscape images and pleasantly sentimental hits in the taste of the time it was made."
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by H. Klemmer, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, published by the publishing house of the same name, without a number
Web links
- Straßenserenade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Street serenade at filmportal.de
- Five pictures from the film at Cinema.de