Truxa

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Movie
Original title Truxa
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1937
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hans H. Zerlett
script Hans H. Zerlett
production KJ Fritzsche
music Matthias Perl , Leo Leux
camera Friedl Behn-Grund
cut Walter Fredersdorf
occupation

Truxa is a film by the director Hans H. Zerlett , shot in 1936 in the Varieté Wintergarten in Berlin . He plays in the artists 'and vaudeville artists' milleu. Hans H. Zerlett wrote the screenplay based on the novel Programm mit Truxa by Heinrich Seiler . The premiere of the film took place on January 19, 1937 in Berlin in the Alhambra.

The film is a production by Tobis-Magna-Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin), under the production management of Helmuth Schreiber, who later became famous as the magician Kalanag .

action

The first shot of the film shows New York . Here, in an artist's pub, the famous high wire artist Truxa gets drunk . The young and unknown artist Husen comes into conversation with him and the well-known Truxa gives him his stage name, so that Husen can now call himself Truxa. At the same time in Berlin the rehearsals for the new show in the winter garden are running. The beautiful dancer Yester, the former assistant and friend of Garvin, another illusionist in the winter garden, whom she left some time ago because of Truxa, will appear in the new program alongside Garvin and the announced Truxa. Since then, the hatred burns in Garvin, because he wants Yester back at all costs.

When Truxa comes to the trial, Yester realizes very quickly that this man is not the real Truxa, but does not know the whole truth about the whereabouts of the real Truxa. They both get to know each other, and the fake Truxa falls in love with Yester. During the first performance, there were initial doubts about Truxa's ability. He does not perform his famous somersault on the tightrope and he does not succeed during rehearsals either. Garvin watches Truxa's failure with growing interest and finally threatens that he knows about his false identity and that he will uncover it if Truxa continues to meet with Yester. For his love for Yester, Truxa breaks his silence and reveals to her the circumstances that led to the name of the famous Truxa. The next evening he had already forgotten Garvin's threat when, during his performance, the tightrope disappears from his eyes and he almost falls off the rope. This was clearly a warning from Garvin, who works with illusions of light and can make the artist's tightrope disappear using a new projection machine. In the cloakroom, Yester shows the fake Truxa the letters that the real Truxa has written her over the past few years. In these letters, the real Truxa describes how he was persecuted by Garvin because of his relationship with Yester and how he slipped more and more into depression and alcohol. Yester asks the wrong Truxa to leave and never see her again. But Truxa wants to stay and fight for Yester.

The next morning, Yester unexpectedly receives mail from the real Truxa, who urgently wants to see her. When they meet, she is horrified: the man she once loved has changed drastically, worn down by the persecution of Garvin. But the real Truxa doesn't notice Yester's horror, he wants to take her to a distant land where Garvin will never find her. At that moment, the wrong Truxa rushes into the room. After an argument, the real Truxa realizes that he can no longer win Yester over. Back at the theater, the management informs the wrong Truxa that he must do the somersault under all circumstances, otherwise his contract would be terminated. Although Yester asks him not to do the somersault, he steps on the rope and, as before, the rope disappears before his eyes. On the lighting bridge, Garvin manipulates the false Truxa's view with his projection machine. Shortly before he starts the somersault, the real Truxa storms onto the lighting bridge and overpowers Garvin. The wrong Truxa in the theater can now see the rope again and can do the somersault. At that moment, Garvin falls from the bridge behind the scenes and lies dead on the stage.

background

The film Truxa was La Jana's breakthrough as an actress and made her known all over Germany in one fell swoop. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer made his film debut with Truxa , this was his first engagement as a film actor.

criticism

An article from Das kleine Magazin reports on a coincidence to which La Jana owes her greatest film success and ascribes a not inconsiderable success of the film to her role: “And yet La Jana owes her first film engagement to a coincidence. In the variety film by Tobis Truxa, the most important female role, that of a great dance star, was to be cast. La Jana, who was still performing in London, had come to Berlin by plane over the weekend. Here she received the telephone request whether she wanted to take on the role. The engagement came about and the later great success of the film was not at least due to her brilliant dancing and acting performance. "

meaning

Truxa is an entertainment film that takes place in the dazzling world of artists and which is intended to take the audience into a strange world and entertain them.

See also

literature

  • Christa Bandmann: The stars shine. From the heyday of German film , Heyne Verlag (Dec. 1984), ISBN 3-45301-128-7

Individual documents and notes

  1. ↑ cf. also Christa Bandmann: The stars shine. From the heyday of German film, p. 83 ff.
  2. ↑ cf. Article: Dancer La Jana, Das kleine Magazin, No. 18, 3rd quarter 1938

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