We Make Music
We Make Music | |
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Directed by | Helmut Käutner |
Written by |
Manfried Rössner (play) Hans Effenberger Erich Ebermayer Helmut Käutner |
Starring |
Ilse Werner Viktor de Kowa Edith Oß Grethe Weiser |
Music by |
Peter Igelhoff Adolf Steimel |
Cinematography | Jan Roth |
Edited by | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Deutsche Filmvertriebs |
Release dates | 8 October 1942 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
We Make Music (German:Wir machen Musik) is a 1942 German musical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner, starring Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa and Edith Oß.[1]
Plot
It is a revue film, loosely based on the stage work Karl III. und Anna von Österreich by Manfried Rössner. Karl Zimmermann, a composer whose idols are Johann Sebastian Bach and classical composers, dreams of being successful with his own opera and composes popular music for fun, but does not try to distribute it for reasons of honor. His wife, Anni Pichler is a popular singer and secretly sells his popular songs so that they can make a living. When he finally completes his opera and it is rejected by the public, he realizes that his true talent is composing popular music and not dishonorable.
Cast
- Ilse Werner as Anni Pichler
- Viktor de Kowa as Paul Zimmermann
- Edith Oß as Trude, Trompeterin
- Grethe Weiser as Monika Bratzberger
- Georg Thomalla as Franz Sperling
- Rolf Weih as Peter Schäfer
- Ilse Buhl as Altsaxofonistin
- Sabine Naundorff as Tenorsaxofonistin
- Hilde Adolphi as Posaunistin
- Gertrud Leonhardt as Gitarristin
- Eva Gotthardt as Bassistin
- Kurt Seifert as Hugo Bratzberger
- Victor Janson as Direktor Pröschke
- Lotte Werkmeister as Karls Zimmerfrau Frau Zierbarth
- Helmuth Helsig as Schornsteinfeger
- Ewald Wenck as Gasmann Knebel
- Wilhelm Bendow as Theaterinspizient
- Klaus Pohl as Bühnenportier in der Oper
- Sonja Kuska as Musikschülerin Barbara
- Otto Braml as Vorsitzender der Prüfungskommission
- Curt Cappi as Kellner Neumann
- Friedrich Wilhelm Dann as Zugschaffner
- Hanne Fey as Sekretärin des Musikverlags
- Robert Forsch as Musikverlagsdirektor Mehmann
- Karl Hannemann as Direktor der Opernbühne
- Sonja Kuske as Barbara, Musikschülerin
- Karin Luesebrink as Musikstudentin
- Artur Malkowsky as Opernsänger bei der Premiere
- Maria von Höslin as Peters Braut
- Helga Warnecke as Musikstudentin
- Gertrud Seelhorst
- Hansi Würbauer
- Sabine André
References
- ↑ Hake p.58
Bibliography
- Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
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