Waltz war
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Waltz war |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ludwig Berger |
| script |
Robert Liebmann Hans Müller |
| production | Günther Stapenhorst |
| music |
Alois Melichar Franz Grothe using compositions by Johann Strauss the Elder. Ä. and Joseph Lanner |
| camera | Carl Hoffmann |
| cut | Willy Zeyn junior |
| occupation | |
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Walzerkrieg is prominently occupied German feature film from 1933. Directed by Louis Berger play Renate Müller , Willy Fritsch , Anton Walbrook and Paul Hörbiger the leading roles.
action
Vienna , in the first half of the 19th century.
Joseph Lanner is a respected waltz composer who has gained great popularity with the people with his own orchestra. His first violinist Johann Strauss is still largely unknown, but full of ambition. He doesn't just want to reform the waltz, he wants to revolutionize it. So the new revolts against the old, which quickly leads to violent arguments and confrontations between Lanner and his young challenger. Strauss's wise men turn Lanner's understanding of music on its head, which is why the established orchestra conductor and the young Strauss finally fall apart.
The news of the dance from distant Austria , which is by no means widely known , penetrates one day to the English royal court. The young queen is madly in love with a charming German prince, Albert von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , and hopes to hear from him soon to propose to him. Since he doesn't even think of saying the longed-for words, the monarch believes that she might be able to lure him with the new music and the dance, which is considered daring. And so Viktoria sends her royal court music director to Vienna to find out more about the waltz and its creator. The British emissary Sir Philips bursts into the middle of the controversy between Lanner and Strauss, about which the whole of Vienna is talking.
Strauss and several other Lanner musicians want to go their own way, as the old man is unwavering and stubborn. He remains completely open to the new. So the “young wild ones” finally found their own orchestra under the direction of Strauss. In order to close the resulting gaps, Joseph Lanner brings his daughter Katharina, called Katti, into his ensemble. She is accompanied by her friend Susi, who plays the harmonica . Lanner and Strauss don’t give each other anything: they also play mercilessly against each other, for example in two vineyards in the immediate vicinity. The competitive struggle gradually turns into a full-blown waltz war, including fights and fights. On the one hand, Sir Philips is amazed at the outbursts of temper that waltz music evidently evokes in many people, but on the other hand, he is delighted because he believes that this music and this dance could possibly bring two royal hearts closer together emotionally. And so he unceremoniously signs the stormy ostrich to London .
In order not to grant Strauss this triumph, Lanner's daughter Katti decided to travel to England with her own ladies' band in order to continue the waltz war there in the spirit of her sad father. Immediately before an appearance in front of Her Majesty, Katharina Lanner unceremoniously locks Johann Strauss in his room so that he might miss his appearance at court. Timpani Gustl wants to prevent a huge embarrassment and disguises himself as Johann Strauss without further ado. With great skill, he succeeds in conducting the royal concert to a complete success. And finally Prince Albert pulls himself up and asks his Queen for her hand. However, when Gustl is asked at the end of the concert to perform an improvised new composition for Viktoria, he starts to swim. A chance find in his coat pocket saved him from that first seemingly hopeless predicament : He takes out a napkin, on the once Lanner a previously unreleased composition had scribbled down. He performs this with the Strauss Orchestra.
Joseph Lanner found out about it at home in Vienna. Beside himself with anger, he dragged Strauss to court and accused him of plagiarism . From the fierce and turbulent negotiation, a brilliant composers' contest between Lanner and Strauss develops, in which both of them compose the Radetzky March in close collaboration . Then there will finally be peace between the two hotheads. And finally, Katti and Gustl also become a couple.
background
The shooting took place from June 6th to July 1933 in the Ufa-Ateliers Babelsberg and their outdoor areas in Potsdam . At the same time, a French film ( La guerre des valses ) was produced from the film . The Waltz War had its world premiere on October 4, 1933 in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo .
The Jew Ludwig Berger was only allowed to shoot the film in Germany, which had become National Socialist a few months earlier, because he could no longer be released from his contract. In a minutes of the Ufa board of directors of March 29, 1933, it was stated regarding Ludwig Berger's “continued employment of Jewish employees”: “h) Director Dr. Berger. As soon as the film Walzerkrieg, in which he is supposed to direct, has ended, his contract should not be extended unless a solution has to be found for other reasons. "
Günther Stapenhorst also took over the production management at Walzerkrieg , Eduard Kubat the production management. Manager was Otto Lehmann . Fritz Thiery was responsible for the sound , the film construction was done by Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig . Günther Anders assisted head cameraman Carl Hoffmann . The Swiss René Hubert designed the costumes. Immediately after filming was over, he left Hitler's Germany and settled in the United States. For the successful German-Jewish author Robert Liebmann , the Waltz War was the last job in his old homeland. Afterwards he received no more orders and he had to emigrate.
Reviews
“With the» Waltz War «Berger takes up the old tried and tested theme of Viennese film: music, waltz sounds, dance, sweet girls and this time the old Radetzky march. This Vienna is an eternal film. Only here is private and world history made in the funniest environment of this year's wine. This waltz war is a funny war that breaks out between Joseph Lanner and the younger Johann Strauss for greater popularity, for the love of the Viennese soul, for the waltz kingship. It leads from the dance gardens of Vienna to the steps of the throne of the young English Queen Victoria. Ludwig Berger dissolves the film entirely into melody, into music. Dance tunes and songs swing through all the scenes: "On the Danube, when the wine is in bloom ..." Even the cameraman Karl Hoffmann shot in three-four time, so that sound and image merge happily and warmly into one. Every sound film historian has to write down the most beautiful scene in the film: how the angry Lanner drums a bar with his fingers on the wooden cupboard of the court, how the defendant, Johann Strauss, jumps to the piano and carries it on, and the two of them improvise the Radetzky March in the middle of the courtroom . We owe these and other musical highlights to the musician Alois Melichar, who celebrates his film debut here. "
Kay Wenigers More is taken from you in life than it is given ... called Walzerkrieg an "extremely lively music film about a lively composers' contest in the 19th century" and reminded us that the film was "an overwhelming critical and box office success".
The lexicon of the international film judged the Waltz War “A sympathetic Singspiel from pre-war Ufa in the handwriting of Ludwig Berger”.
On the occasion of the television premiere on May 30, 1970 on ZDF , the Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “Turbulent comedy of love and mistaken identity, which comes up with sonorous actor names, but can only be experienced as an 'old German film' due to its time-related pathetic representation. "
See also
Web links
- Walzerkrieg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Waltz War at filmportal.de
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- ↑ a b Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 13.
- ^ Ufa minutes on the termination of the contract with Ludwig Berger
- ↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 95.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 9, p. 4185. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 241/1970