When the white lilac blooms again
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | When the white lilac blooms again |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script |
Eberhard Keindorff , Johanna Sibelius |
| production |
Kurt Ulrich (Berolina Production) |
| music | Franz Doelle |
| camera | Kurt Schulz |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
| occupation | |
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When the white lilac is in bloom again is a German feature film by Hans Deppe from 1953, which is one of the best-known and most popular works of the early 1950s. Not least because of the regular repetitions on television, it is still known to a wide audience today. The script is based on a film novel by Fritz Rotter . The main roles are cast with Willy Fritsch , Magda Schneider , Hertha Feiler and Paul Klinger . The film represents Romy Schneider's and Götz George's film debut.
action
Chronic lack of money is the main disruptive factor in the marriage of the Wiesbaden bar singer Willy Forster and the seamstress Therese. After a very violent argument, Willy leaves his wife head over heels without knowing that she is expecting a child from him. Evchen is born in his absence. She is raised alone by her mother and her father's friend Peter.
After fifteen years, Willy, who has now made a world career as a singer under the pseudonym Bill Perry, is returning to Wiesbaden as part of a European tour . His first path leads to Therese, who does not tell him that she has a daughter of his. But since Evchen is a big fan of "Bill Perry", she gets to know him anyway, and so Willy ultimately learns by chance that Evchen is his daughter.
Willy's visit does not bring the end expected by everyone. Rather, Therese and Peter realize that they have actually been a couple for a long time, just as Willy notes that his whole happiness was not in the joy of seeing his Therese again, but rather in the harmonious coexistence with his long-time manager Ellen. And Evchen, too, is ultimately happy how everything turned out.
production
Production notes
It is a Gevaert Color film based on Agfa and Gevaert patents, Tonsystem Klangfilm Eurocord, produced in the Berlin-Tempelhof film studios. Ernst Schomer and Peter Schlewski were responsible for the buildings .
Filmed in Wiesbaden and the surrounding area, When the White Lilac Again Blooms is one of the few homeland films that are set in the Hessian region . Recordings of Wiesbaden's old town are one of the highlights of the film. The Bergkirche in Wiesbaden was one of the filming locations, as was the Bergkirchenviertel and the Wiesbaden spa gardens . Other locations were the Hessian State Theater and the Neroberghotel in Wiesbaden.
music
Franz Doelle's song When the white lilacs bloom again , which gave the film its name, was a popular hit back in the 1920s . In addition, a lot of other Franz Doelle hits were used, such as B. One day in spring from the German feature film Victor and Victoria from 1933. The lyrics are by Fritz Rotter , Bruno Balz and Fred Ignor. The Egon Kaiser band and soloists played.
- When the white lilac is blooming again , lecture: Zarah Leander & Liane Augustin
- One day in spring , text: Bruno Balz
- Hours of bliss , text: Fred Ignor
- Because we understand each other like that, text: Fred Ignor
- Yes, a life without you , text: Fred Ignor
- Baby, my girl , text: Fred Ignor
background
In this feature film, stars like Willy Fritsch, Paul Klinger, Magda Schneider and Hertha Feiler, who belonged to the first guard of German film actors before the Second World War , meet the children of well-known film actors. Romy Schneider , daughter of Magda Schneider and Wolf Albach-Retty , Nina von Porembsky , her mother was Alexa von Porembsky , and Götz George , son of Heinrich George and Berta Drews , play their first film roles here.
This music film is one of the few works of this era whose happy end cannot be foreseen right from the start.
publication
The film premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on November 24, 1953, in Austria in December 1953. It was released in the Netherlands in March 1954, in Denmark in November 1956 and in Finland in January 1957. It was also released in Argentina, Belgium , Czechoslovakia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Portugal.
When the white lilac is in bloom again was published on November 7th, 2008 by Studiocanal in the series "A reunion with ..." together with Die Deutschmeister on DVD. On February 17, 2011, the film was published by Studiocanal as part of the series Ein Stück Heimat zum Collect (including the tin sign of the film poster). It was also published on December 1, 2017 by Alive as part of the “Jewels of Film History” series.
Reviews
"Happy heart and landscape romance, music and sentiment, humor and tears of melancholy."
“Until you are lucky - with another partner - you have to sort out the small conflicts and big feelings that are common in the genre. Surrounded by a lot of singing, soulful entertainment is set, which always remains on the surface and therefore thematically irrelevant. "
“Emotional average German film [...] framed by songs, revues and homeland landscapes. For the undemanding, with reservations about the superficial view of the marriage. "
"[...] successful entertainment [...] (rating: 2 stars - average)"
“This honest musical romance really only deserves attention because two young actors of the same age had their first screen appearance here, which was to have far-reaching consequences for both of them. [...] A maudlin-bourgeois music film with some lively melodies - clean and adapted like the time in which it was made. "
literature
- Robert Amos (Ed.): Myth Romy Schneider - I lend myself to dream . Melzer Verlag, Neu Isenburg 2006, 288 pages, ISBN 3-939062-02-2
Web links
- When the white lilacs again flourishes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- When the white lilac is in bloom again at filmportal.de (including three different film posters)
- When the white lilacs bloom again Fig. Title page Illustrierter Film-Kurier (in the picture: Magda and Romy Schneider, Willy Fritsch)
- When the white lilacs bloom again full movie at dailymotion.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ When the white lilac is blooming again Fig. DVD case "A reunion with ..."
- ↑ When the white lilac is blooming again Fig. DVD case "A piece of home to collect"
- ↑ When the white lilac is blooming again Fig. DVD case "Jewels of Film History"
