Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!

Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (German:Nur nicht weich werden, Susanne!) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Arzén von Cserépy and starring Jessie Vihrog, Veit Harlan and Willi Schur. A young woman's attempts to break into the film industry are thwarted by two unscrupulous producers.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Grave and Karl Vollbrecht. The film offered support to the Nazi Party's anti-Semitic stance by a negative portrayal of the two Jewish film producers. It received strong official backing and a gala premiere was arranged for its release by Joseph Goebbels. To Goebbels' surprise and disgust the first night audience booed once the screening was over. The incident was largely hushed-up and the film's director Arzén von Cserépy went back to his native Hungary in disgrace and never made another German film.^[2]

Cast

• Jessie Vihrog as Susanne Kirchner
• Veit Harlan as Georg Brinkmann
• Willi Schur as Generaldirektor Sally Gold
• Ernst Rotmund as Produktionsleiter Archinowitz
• Maly Delschaft as Filmdiva
• Harry Frank as Filmstar
• Eugen Rex as Regisseur
• Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Detektiv
• Rotraut Richter as Grete
• Ellen Bang as Lilli
• Josef Dahmen as Kurvenkarl
• Heinz Berghaus
• Gerhard Dammann
• Josefine Dora as Tante Frieda
• Hugo Flink as Redakteur
• Aribert Grimmer as Kommissar
• Karl Harbacher
• Max Hochstetter
• Maria Krahn
• Hilde Krüger
• Hermann Picha
• Karl Platen
• Max Ralph-Ostermann as Schmidt - Rechtsanwalt
• Carla Rust
• Ernst Albert Schaach as Vizepräsident
• Robert Thiem as Fredy Miller - Regieassistent

References

1. ↑ Hull p.69
2. ↑ Hull p.69

Bibliography

• David Stewart Hull. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945. University of California Press, 1969.

External links

• Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! at the Internet Movie Database