Once you give your heart away

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Movie
Original title Once you give your heart away
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1929
length about 85 minutes
Age rating FSK youth ban at the time
Rod
Director Johannes Guter
script Robert Liebmann
production Günther Stapenhorst
for UFA
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner , Willy Rosen
camera Fritz Arno Wagner
occupation

Once you give your heart away, there is a silent film by Johannes Guter from 1929. A dubbed version with dialogues, music and noises was released in 1930. Lilian Harvey , Igo Sym and Harry Halm can be seen in the main roles .

The script is based on Ludwig von Wohl's novel The Vagabond of the Equator .

action

Dolly, who no longer has parents, lives with her foster father, who works as a supervisor on a banana plantation on the island of Borneo . When she watches a film about Europe on board a cargo steamer, Dolly decides to stay on board the ship while the banana trees are being delivered and to hide there, as she is fascinated by the images of the foreign cities that she would like to get to know to have. Since it is only discovered when the ship is already at sea, it must now make itself useful on board. When she made the acquaintance of the shipowner Bruns, she fell in love with the charming man, but without revealing her feelings to him.

After the ship has docked in Hamburg, Dolly wants to be handed over to the Dutch consulate. However, through tricky circumstances, of which Dolly is not entirely innocent, it does not come to that. She ends up with a competitor of the shipowner who wants her to steal a contract that is important to him from Bruns. Dolly pretends to agree, but flees to the ship and tells Bruns everything. A lot becomes clear to the shipowner, especially why Dolly acts like this. Since he has long since ceased to be indifferent to the young woman, the two become a couple.

production

Production notes

The exterior shots were shot on Tenerife and on board the cargo steamer “Orotava” on the voyage from the port of Hamburg to Tenerife, the interior shots in the UFA studio in Neubabelsberg. The shooting lasted from May to July 1929. The working title of the film was: The Vagabond of the Equator . Jack Rotmil and Heinz Fennel were responsible for the film construction . The manager had Willy Zeunert held. Like silent films, talkies were also banned from young people.

Music track

Publications

The silent film premiered on November 28, 1929 in the Ufa-Lichtspieltheater on Paradeplatz in Stettin . It had its Austrian premiere on December 25, 1929 in Vienna, also as a silent film. The production company UFA prevented a silent premiere in Berlin because they expected a higher profit from a sound film version that was then also made.

In Croatia the film was released on November 20, 1929, in Denmark on December 26, 1929. In Germany, the sound version was premiered on January 17, 1930 in Berlin. The film also opened in Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria and Sweden in 1930. It was published in Portugal in 1931. The film was also shown in Spain, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia. The international distribution title was When You One Day Give Your Heart Away .

criticism

Ernst Jäger from Film-Kurier , No. 1263, wrote: “Starfilm by Lilian Harvey. Success has already been tried in the Reich. (Box office battles in Stettin!) Now it will be delivered with a very welcome musical accompaniment. ”Jäger continued:“ Everything about Lilian - you should see her and laugh at her, that's all the film wants; her personality and her mischief, her agility and the mimic jokes - that should be done. The young girls laugh, the old men laugh, in the end huge applause and joy. So what."

Karlheinz Wendtland spoke of a love story that “little people wanted to see, a melody that became an evergreen. The sound version of the film was a great success ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1929 and 1930, Medium Film Verlag Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, first edition 1988, second revised edition 1990, p. 23, film N2 / 1930. ISBN 3-926945-10-9
  2. ↑ a b Gero Gandert: The film of the Weimar Republic 1929 A manual of contemporary criticism. On behalf of the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation, edited by Gero Gandert, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1993, Film 207, p. 709 - ISBN 3-11-011183-7