Where the Lark Sings (1956)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Where the lark sings |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Wolff |
| script |
Karl Farkas Hugo M. Kreutzendorff |
| production |
Paula Wessely Otto Dürer |
| music |
Franz Lehár Bruno Uher |
| camera | Erich Claunigk |
| cut | Paula Dworak |
| occupation | |
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Where the Lark Sings is an Austrian feature film by the director Hans Wolff , assisted by the then unknown Franz Josef Gottlieb . The screenplay is loosely based on the operetta of the same name by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert (libretto) and Franz Lehár (composition) from 1918. The main roles are with Doris Kirchner , Renate Holm , Nina Sandt and Theo Lingen , Oskar Sima and Lutz Landers occupied.
The film premiered on November 2, 1956 in Vienna. In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on November 29, 1956 in the Bavaria-Lichtspiele in Würzburg.
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Few people are familiar with the name of the Viennese poster painter Stefan Helmers. His girlfriend Anita Berger, who is employed as a fashion illustrator in the elegant fashion house of René Valentin, is a little more successful. One day, Stefan surprisingly receives the order to design a church window in the old church of a small village in the Salzkammergut . The two young people set off overjoyed. Anita didn't even find it necessary to submit a vacation request to her boss. René Valentin is therefore a little perplexed when he reads the terse message on a note that his employee suddenly had to travel. She will send him the drafts for the new A-line later.
Shortly before Stolling am Attersee, Stefan's old car goes on strike. Fortunately, the Stiegelbauer soon comes by with his ox cart. While the car is being towed, Anita and Stefan take a seat on the cart loaded with sheaves , greeted with joy by Gretl, the farmer's granddaughter, her friend Loni and her groom Karl, who works as a farmhand in the stile farmer's. When the cart drives into the village, Gretl lets her voice ring out like a lark. Due to the lack of accommodation in Stolling, the Stiegelbauer Stefan offers a room on his farm and Anita can live with the neighbor Loni.
Soon Gretl and Stefan were flirting with each other. The native Karl adores the city dweller Anita. After a few days, the fashion house owner in Stolling also turns up. Thanks to his forensic instinct, René Valentin was able to locate the whereabouts of his employees, with whom he is secretly in love. He quickly grasps the situation and begins to intrigue. He stirs up Anita's jealousy and has the young woman return to Vienna with him.
Even after the work is done, Stefan stays in Stolling for a while. Here his artistic talent fully unfolds. In addition to many landscapes, he portrays Gretl with a gold bonnet. Back in Vienna, he gives the painting to the autumn exhibition of the Künstlerhaus. What he did not think possible happened: for the work "Mädchen mit Goldhaube" he was awarded first prize. Now all visitors to the exhibition are excited to see the "natural child" in the original; Stefan has announced her coming. When Gretl finally shows up, everyone is horrified: the girl has dressed up as an elegant lady and looks like she is in disguise.
After a few mistakes and confusions, all problems dissolve in good pleasure, and in the end three happy couples have found each other: Anita and Stefan, Gretl and her fiancé Kaspar, who has returned from his long trip to Canada, and Loni and Karl.
Production notes
The production company was Paula Wessely Filmproduktions GmbH (Vienna), production manager Otto Dürer.
The outdoor shots were taken at the original locations in the Salzkammergut, the indoor shots in the Rosenhügel film studios in Vienna. Franz Lehár's music is not heard in the original, but in an adaptation by Bruno Uher . The film architect Fritz Mögle was responsible for the buildings. Fred Adlmüller contributed the costumes. The main actor Lutz Landers was a "Viennese record star" who made his screen debut in this film.
In the US, the film was called Where the Lark Sings .
criticism
The lexicon of international film draws the following conclusion: "Melodies from a Lehár operetta accompany the stringing together of comedy, stirring and homeland clichés."
The “ Filmarchiv Austria ” classifies the work as mediocre at best. It notes that it is a risk-free production with which the Wessely-Film speculated on the public's taste at the time. The libretto for the successful operetta of the same name has been reworked into film material, combining elements of the stage work with the topos of the homeland film and refreshing the music with elements of hits.
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by the publishing house of the same name, Mannheim, number 3890
Web links
- Where the lark sings in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Where the lark sings at filmportal.de
- Where the Lark Sings Film images sS Cinema.de
- Where the lark sings , see Fig.Illustrated Film Stage and New Film Program No. 80
- Where the Lark Sings Fig. Original movie poster
- Where the Lerche Sings (1956) full film on ingutesdeutsch.web.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Where the Lark Sings (1956) sS film.at. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4344
- ↑ Where the lark sings. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 29, 2018 .