Fireworks (1954 film)

Feuerwerk Fireworks
Austrian release poster
Directed by	Kurt Hoffmann
Produced by	Erik Charell Conrad Flockner Georg Richter
Written by	Jürg Amstein (play) Erik Charell (play) Felix Lützkendorf Günter Neumann Herbert Witt
Starring	Lilli Palmer Karl Schönböck Romy Schneider
Music by	Paul Burkhardt
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Edited by	Claus von Boro
Production company	N.D.F. Produktion
Distributed by	Schorcht Filmverleih
Release date	16 September 1954
Running time	97 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Fireworks (German: Feuerwerk) is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck and Romy Schneider. Palmer's rendition of the song "O mein Papa" became a major hit.^[1] It was Palmer's debut film in her native Germany, having spent many years in exile in Britain, and launched her career as a major star in the country.

The film is based on the 1950 stage musical The Firework partly written by Erik Charell. It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting.

It is a circus film set at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Cast

Lilli Palmer as Iduna
Karl Schönböck as Alexander Oberholzer
Romy Schneider as Anna Oberholzer
Claus Biederstaedt as Robert
Werner Hinz as Albert Oberholzer
Rudolf Vogel as Onkel Gustav, an uncle
Margarete Haagen as Kathi
Ernst Waldow as Onkel Wilhelm
Liesl Karlstadt as Tante Berta, an aunt
Käthe Haack as Karoline Oberholzer
Lina Carstens as Tante Paula
Michl Lang as Onkel Fritz
Charlotte Witthauer as Tante Alwine
Tatjana Sais as Madame Sperling
Willy Reichert as Bahnhofsvorsteher (that is station master)
Hans Clarin as ein Zirkusangestellter (works at the circus)
Michael Cramer as sein Kollege (works at the circus, too)
Christiane Maybach as Jasmine
Klaus Pohl as Piepereit

References

↑ Bock & Berfelder p.356

Bibliography

Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books.

External links

Fireworks on IMDb

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