Who takes love seriously? (1931)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Who takes love seriously? |
| Country of production | Weimar Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Engel |
| script |
Henry Koster Curt Alexander |
| production | Curt Melnitz for Terra-Film AG , Berlin |
| music | Wilhelm Grosz |
| camera | Curt Courant |
| occupation | |
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Who takes love seriously? is a comedy and a love story of the director Erich Engel from 1931. In the lead role embodies Max Hansen the petty criminals Max. Before the contemporary backdrop of the global economic crisis , it seems remarkable that the main characters of the comedy live in economically precarious circumstances.
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The harmless petty criminal Max is actually a person with a big heart. He "earns" his living by kidnapping dogs with his "colleague" Willy and returning them "properly" to their owners for a ransom.
When he was once again followed by the police, he found refuge with Ilse, whom Max passed off as her partner to her room landlady. It doesn't help, he has to serve a small three-day sentence in prison. There he met the dog owner and speculator Bruno, who stayed on his heels even after his release from prison.
Later on, Ilse's room was terminated by the landlady, who found out that Max was actually a criminal wanted by the police. Whether he was a harmless petty criminal or a real gangster, there is no difference. A major part of the further film plot takes place in a beauty competition (contest) in Berlin's Lunapark , which Ilse wins. Max can no longer visit her because his loyal prison colleague Bruno keeps interfering.
The plot of the film ends well when one day Max comes home drunk out of sheer grief for Ilse, but she is already there eagerly waiting for him. The two happily embrace each other and from now on look to a future together.
Release dates and different film titles
Who takes love seriously? was premiered on September 28, 1931 in the Berlin atrium. Further publication dates (abroad) were March 21, 1932 in Sweden (there under the title Flickan från Luna Park ) and February 9, 1936 in the USA (there under the international title Who Takes Love Seriously? ). In Denmark the title was Berlinernætter ; in Austria the original title was used (with some minor deviations; in some cases, ellipses were used at the end of the title instead of the question mark ).
Production notes
Kurt Schröder conducted the orchestra, which Lewis Ruth took over. The lyrics are written by Fritz Rotter , Marcel Lion and Willy Rosen . Heinrich C. Richter designed the film structures .
For the German film and theater director Erich Engel, this was his first feature film.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: “This film book is not prudish but without tastelessness, humorous but not cramped, unpretentious but level-conscious. The continuous, only slightly caricaturing direction does justice to it, leads the ensemble with delightful nonchalance, lets it chat in an informal, humorous dialogue. Hansen charming, without antics; the Jugo very much, loosened up. "
"The first feature film by Erich Engel is a comedy based on appropriate milieu studies, pointed dialogues and time-critical parodic allusions."
Others
Who takes love seriously? is - like many other films made shortly before the Nazi era - overshadowed in retrospect by sad and shameful circumstances. For example, the cabaret artist and copywriter Willy Rosen (bourgeois Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum ) as well as the actor Otto Wallburg perished in concentration camps.
Web links
- Who takes love seriously? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Who takes love seriously? at moviepilot.de
- Who takes love seriously? at film.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who takes love seriously ... (1931) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved August 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Who takes love seriously? In: filmportal.de. Retrieved August 11, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Who takes love seriously? in the lexicon of international film
- ↑ Who takes love seriously ... in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
