Woe to him who loves!
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| Original title | Woe to him who loves! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Alexander of Slatina |
| script | Eberhard Keindorff |
| production | Gyula Trebitsch |
| music | Alexander of Slatina |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Alice Ludwig-Rasch |
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Woe to him who loves! is a German comedy film with music from 1951 by Alexander von Slatinay with Gretl Schörg , Wolf Albach-Retty and Arno Assmann in the leading roles.
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The operetta singer Adrienne Dymo is a real prima donna, adored and celebrated, who robs the theater director Neumann's last nerve because she does not immediately sign his extension contract. Everyone believes they know everything about her through the advertisements for her, but La Dymo has a great secret: She is already married to the third conductor of the theater where she is employed. This Tobias Schramm is quite jealous, especially since Adrienne met the lawyer Dr. Took Gött home with him tonight and even offered him a place to stay. One day a trial leads Dr. Gött into the courtroom, where he promptly thinks he sees Adrienne again. She is charged with assaulting her neighbor Knorr. A comparison is made, and Gött gets to know the young woman, a sculptor, who turns out to be Adrienne's twin sister, Juliane Dymo, about whom the lawyer previously knew nothing. Gött accompanies the artist home and begins to flirt violently with her. Both quickly fall in love with each other, and after only a short time they marry.
It becomes clear why Adrienne's marriage is kept secret: Her husband Tobias, who has so far not been very successful as a composer, wants it that way, because he wants to see his own composition performed first. Adrienne's legal representative Dr. Schmidt urges director to finally sign Neumann's offer to extend his contract. However, in order to delay the signature, the artist rushed off to Zurich to undertake an engagement and left her husband, who was suffering from a creative blockage, alone in her wooden house in the forest. To his wife Juliane, Gött does not tell that he knows her seductive sister Adrienne. When Juliane finds out, the house blessing quickly goes awry because Juliane assumes that Gött only married her because he is actually in love with Adrienne. The jealous Juliane now slips into the role of Adrienne to find out whether something has really happened between her husband and her sister and causes some confusion with this role swap game. Although the mood is very flirty, Gött remains steadfast towards the fake Adrienne in her private rooms. When the two director Neumann and his factotum Worringer turn up, who also think Juliane is Adrienne, the mess is perfect.
Neumann reminds that she, Adrienne, still has a radio interview to give today. Juliane panics, because during the interview she should also give a small sample of her (i.e. Adrienne's) skills. However, she cannot admit that there was a mistake, as her god-husband is still present. In the meantime, Adrienne's lawyer Schmidt informed him that the young lady present could not be Adrienne, because he had just called the singer who was in Zurich. Now Dr. Gött realized that he had spoken to his Juliane the whole time and that she wanted to put him to the test in the role of her twin sister. He thinks it's time for a little lesson with his wife Juliane. In order to spare her niece Juliane the embarrassment, Aunt Amanda sabotages the radio recording at the moment when Juliane is supposed to sing and creates a short circuit. Somehow Juliane cheated through the interview without having to sing. At the end of the broadcast radio report, the new composition by Kapellmeister Schramm is smuggled in, which Director Neumann likes so much that he obliges his assistant to sign the composer immediately.
The next morning Schramm returns to his home with his completed operetta “The jealous girl”. He thinks he sees Juliane asleep in bed and goes to Juliane's bed. Aunt Amanda tries to prevent an inter-family catastrophe when Adrienne returns from Zurich. Adrienne is now jealous, having just got out of the bed in which Juliane is still lying. In the end, all errors will be cleared up and the right married couple will find their way back together. In addition, with the help of director Neumann, Adrienne can bring Tobias' composition to a success.
Production notes
Woe to him who loves! was created at the beginning of 1951 in the Real-Film-Studio in Hamburg-Tonndorf. The world premiere took place on May 1, 1951 in Berlin.
Producer Gyula Trebitsch also took over the production management. Herbert Kirchhoff designed the film structures, Albrecht Becker assisted him. The costumes are by Erna Sander , assisted by Irms Pauli . Ralph Maria Siegel wrote the lyrics . Otto Meissner was production assistant, Werner M. Lenz camera assistant.
Arno Assmann sings the song “Why is the water wet?” Together with Gretl Schörg.
criticism
The lexicon of international films says: "An operetta diva secretly married to a not yet recognized composer and her twin sister trigger the confusion of confusion that is common in the genre."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Woe to him who loves! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Woe to him who loves! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Woe to him who loves! at filmportal.de