Who will cry when you part?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Who will cry when you part? |
| Country of production |
Germany United Kingdom |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | about 85 (7 acts, 2310 m) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK youth ban at the time |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Eichberg |
| script |
Alfred Halm Friedrich Stein |
| production | Richard Eichberg |
| music | Hans May , Hugo Hirsch |
| camera |
Heinrich gardener Bruno Mondi |
| occupation | |
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Who will cry when you part (subtitled Filmschwank ) is a German - British co-production by Richard Eichberg from 1929. The main roles are starring Dina Gralla and Harry Halm as well as Paul Morgan and Antonie Jaeckel .
The title and script are derived from the hit that Hugo Hirsch composed in 1920 for his operetta “Die Scheidungsreise”, which became an evergreen. Charlie Roellinghoff provided the subtitles .
action
The detective Sybil Werner is instructed by the boss of the Harder & Co. bank to take the money he allegedly embezzled from his authorized signatory Frank Western. Sybil learns that Western has checked in on a ship scheduled for South America. She also checks in there and makes the acquaintance of the young man who is actually very likeable to her. This leads her to investigate in all directions, at the end of which it turns out that Western didn't do what he is suspected of doing. Before that happens, however, there are various mix-ups and some spicy situations.
After Sybil can finally prove the young man's innocence, nothing stands in the way of a connection between the two.
production
Production notes
The production companies were Eichberg-Film GmbH (Berlin) and British International Pictures Ltd. (GDP, London). The production management was with Arthur Teuber and Arthur Kolberg, the recording management with Willy Melas. The shooting (exterior shots) took place in April / May 1929 in Southampton on the Hapag ship “Deutschland”, as did the interior shots that were shot in the UFA studio in Neubabelsberg . The sound film company Lignose-Breusing , Nadelton, dubbed it. Willi A. Herrmann , Werner Schlichting and Herbert Lippschitz were responsible for the film construction. The film was first distributed by Südfilm AG (Berlin).
Film music
- Casanova by Hans May
- Who will cry when you come apart , foxtrot of Hugo Hirsch
Examination, publication
The film was subject to a youth ban on July 5, 1929, test number B.22850, which was confirmed in a review on July 11, 1929. A third censorship test on November 15, 1929, test number B.24219, confirmed the youth ban, which had already been extended to post-synchronization on August 15, 1929, test number B.23171, because of the dubbing.
The premiere was Wer will cry when you part ways on September 30, 1929 in the Universum in Berlin, on October 2, 1929 the film was then generally in German cinemas. The first screening in Vienna took place on January 24, 1930. In the USA the film was released on February 1, 1930 under the title Why Cry at Parting? released. The international title was No Use Crying If Your Sweetheart Goes Away . The film was shown in Denmark under the title Skilsmisserejsen .
The film is on the missing list of early sound films up to 1945 listed by the Federal Archives for Films.
Reviews
The film critic and author Karlheinz Wendtland wrote about the film's premiere at the time: “The premiere in Berlin was definitely a success. […] Paul Morgan, Szöke Szakall and Paul Hörbiger provide the humor. Although dubbed afterwards, Richard Eichberg here proves his sense for the sound film to which he gave what the sound film is. Unfortunately, the needle-tone process couldn't keep up, as it repeatedly proved its inadequacy in terms of synchronization. "
The Film-Kurier Berlin No. 235 of October 3, 1929 also relied on the complicated construction for the pin-tone film, where "the pin of the pickup breaks after a groove and jumps back to the starting point", but forgave that as a small technical error, which should not occur, "but was made by the premier devil". In relation to the film editing, the sound dynamics have remained, it seems, "a book with seven seals". Morgan spoke “as a ventriloquist”, Dina Gralla “out of the bodice”, Szakall “out of the toe” and “poor Harry Halm out of a tin box on which he appears to be standing”.
Michael Mendelsohn from the magazine Die Welt am Abend spoke of a retrospectively dubbed comedy that was the "infusion of more or less bearable nonsense". In a provocative manner, he asked whether one could still expect something from "Eichberg - spiritually -". The sound of the film arises: “Flower vases, boot tips, ties, another time he flees out the window, sits on the ceiling and croaks mockingly down at the little men and women, who so clearly accentuate every syllable and with them Mouths snap like fish pulled out of the water.
The film scholar Gero Gandert wrote in a later review that one knows Eichberg's “bitter, unabashed way of replacing the meagerness of his manuscripts with an array of nude acrobatics; and you [know] how Dina Gralla's porcelain eyes would look in the close-up ”. It was also said that Eichberg had “only continued his previous line with this comedy. One more film farce with all its mix-ups, undressings and subtitles ”. But "the worst" is that these subtitles would speak and that continuously. And the prophecy that “the banality lisped on by actors would become unbearable, [had] come true”. Gandert was particularly offended by the alleged synchronization, which revealed that “sound and image, language and mouth movements no longer match each other in time. The words run ahead of what is spoken on the screen and vice versa ”.
Web links
- Who will cry when you come apart at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Who will cry when you break up at filmportal.de
- Who will cry when you part? Cover picture Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 1219 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shellac record collection: Who will cry when you part with diglib.bisuni-oldenburg.de
- ↑ a b Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies. Born in 1929 and 1930. 2. revised. Edition. Publisher Medium Film Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin 1990, p. 10, film N5 / 1929. ISBN 3-926945-10-9 .
- ^ German sound films 1929–1945 Loss of delivery in the Federal Archives (selection) Film number 7 in the bundesarchiv.de
- ↑ a b c Gero Gandert (Ed.): The film of the Weimar Republic - A manual of contemporary criticism. Part: 1929. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1993, pp. 717, 718. ISBN 3-11-011183-7 .