Charm of the bohemian

Movie
Original title	Charm of the bohemian
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1937
length	102 minutes
Rod
Director	Géza from Bolváry
script	Ernst Marischka Alfred Gerasch
production	Alfred Kern (Intergloria-Film, Vienna)
music	Robert Stolz Paul Hühn
camera	Franz Planner
cut	Hermann Haller
occupation
Jan Kiepura : René Lambertain Marta Eggerth : Denise Vernier Paul Kemp : Pierre Casale, composer Theo Lingen : Aristide Boupon, astronomer Oskar Sima : André Dupré, animal painter Richard Romanowsky : Professor Delumat, Opera Kapellmeister Lizzi wooden shoe : Lolotte Diridon, milliner Alfred Gerasch : François Vernier, cellist, Denise's father Carl Günther : Octave de Croisson, champagne manufacturer Fritz Imhoff : Didier Blanchon, mustard manufacturer Mimmi Shorp : Anita Karl Skraup : Biscot, bailiff Louise Kartousch : Madame Barbuche Hans Brand: Doctor in the Opera House Ray Neudörffer : stage manager in the opera Robert Valberg : Charles Fouqué, Opera Director Karl Ehmann : Denise's doctor

Magic of the Bohème is an Austrian fiction film from 1937.

action

René Lambertin ( Jan Kiepura ) is an unemployed tenor . The young soprano Denise Vernier falls in love with him and wants to help him. She uses the champagne maker Octave de Croisson to give René's career a boost. Croisson is in love with Denise and fulfills her every wish. He speaks to the opera director Delumat, and René actually gets the lead in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème . Denise sings the main female part. In reality, her role fate suddenly becomes her own and she becomes ill with tuberculosis . The young couple's happiness seems to have melted away. Denise leaves René so as not to burden him with her imminent death. She makes him believe that she is living with Croisson. René only realizes how much Denise loves him during the opera premiere of La Bohème . But it is too late. Denise dies of the same illness as the character to be portrayed during the performance.

background

In addition to arias by Giacomo Puccini from La Bohème , this film features two songs that Robert Stolz and Ernst Marischka wrote especially for the film: I love you! and don't cry, a beautiful woman breaks your heart

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : humorous relaxed music film with the dream couple Eggerth and Kiepura, which merges stage events and reality in a less credible, very emotional way.

Web links

• Magic of Bohème in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The magic of bohemia at filmportal.de