Have you ever been in love with me?

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Original title Have you ever been in love with me?
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Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
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Director Douglas Wolfsperger
script Douglas Wolfsperger, based on a template by Michael Lentz
production ICON FILM Cologne in coproduction with WDR , ORF and Epofilm Vienna
music Haindling
camera Igor Luther
cut Jean-Marc Lesguillons
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Have you ever been in love with me? is a feature documentary by Douglas Wolfsperger about Max Hansen . The film was awarded the title “Particularly valuable” by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW).

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Max Hansen is one of the great entertainment stars of the Weimar Republic . He is one of the founders of the legendary cabaret of comedians . He celebrates success in the role of the waiter Leopold in the musical Im Weisse Rössl (Berlin 1930). However, cabaret pranks and Jewish origins suddenly put a brake on his career after Hitler came to power. After a stopover in Vienna, where he discovered Zarah Leander "on the side" , Hansen built a new life in Scandinavia . He succeeds in staging a new biography and in obtaining the “Aryan proof”. But the fear remains undefeated: Hansen is not returning to Germany.

Douglas Wolfsperger interweaves in Have you ever fell in love with me? an artist portrait , a contemporary document and a moral image to a mosaic, with the subtle images of Igor Luther ( The Tin Drum ) and the contrasting music by Haindling . Wolfsperger mixes old film documents with new conversations and lets Hansen's children Max Hansen junior and Ann-Mari Max Hansen , who are also actors, have their say, but also his fans and contemporaries, former colleagues and future stars like Brigitte Mira . Have you ever been in love with me? is the portrait of a forgotten superstar. It is also a document about the artistically most fertile period of the Weimar Republic , when world-class film, theater and cabaret flourished. And it is a film that reports retrospectively on the upheavals in the German entertainment industry during the Nazi era and the problems that many emigrants had with their former homeland long after the end of the Nazi era.

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  • Douglas Wolfsperger discovered with the gorgeous film portrait, Have you ever been in love with me? ' the forgotten Ufa star Max Hansen. ( Zitty , Martin Schwarz)
  • This long overdue rediscovery of a once popular actor is entertaining and enlightening, not least because of the delicious film clips that show Hansen as a gifted comedian. ( Hamburger Abendblatt , Michael Ranze)
  • Truly a difficult topic, and yet a loving, effortless rapprochement, also thanks to the wonderful contemporary witnesses, including Brigitte Mira in her very last film. The forgotten love story of a people about one of their great stars. ( Die Welt , Peter Zander)
  • Director Douglas Wolfsperger has 'Have you ever fallen in love with me?' created an unusually well-researched documentary about an unusual artist and his unusual career. ( Politiken , Copenhagen)
  • Douglas Wolfsperger's film about the singer, actor and entertainer Max Hansen, an entertainment star of the Weimar Republic, combines an impressive political and private story into a dazzling biography. ( epd film , Rudolf Worschech)

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