A Song Goes Round the World (1958 film)
A Song Goes Round the World | |
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German | Ein Lied geht um die Welt |
Directed by | Géza von Bolváry |
Written by | Ernst Neubach |
Produced by | Ernst Neubach |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ernst W. Kalinke |
Edited by | Anneliese Schönnenbeck |
Music by | Hans May |
Production company | Neubach Film |
Distributed by | Constantin Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
A Song Goes Round the World (German: Ein Lied geht um die Welt) is a 1958 West German musical film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Hans Reiser, Sabine Sesselmann, and Ruth Stephan.[1] The film is a biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known song and a 1933 film of the same title in which he starred.
It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich.
Plot[]
The film tells about the rapid rise and success of a German singer, who was famous in Germany and other European countries in the early 1930s, his persecution by the Nazis, his escape through numerous countries and eventually his tragic death as an inmate of the Girenbad internment camp in Switzerland at the age of 38.
Cast[]
- Hans Reiser as Joseph Schmidt
- Sabine Sesselmann as Brigitte von Hilden
- Ruth Stephan as Malvine
- Theo Lingen as Himmel
- Karl Lieffen as Pianist Schlange
- Annie Rosar asSchmidt's mother
- Susanne Korda as Renée
- Lotte Ledl as Mizzi
- Hans Hais
- Johanna Hofer as Frau von Hilden
- Käthe Itter
- Wolf Petersen
- Max Strassberg as Strassberg
- Jaspar von Oertzen
References[]
- ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 51. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1958 films
- German-language films
- 1958 musical films
- 1950s biographical films
- German musical films
- German biographical films
- West German films
- Films directed by Géza von Bolváry
- Biographical films about singers
- Films about Nazi Germany
- Constantin Film films
- Cultural depictions of German men
- Cultural depictions of Romanian men
- Cultural depictions of Austrian men
- Cultural depictions of pop musicians
- 1950s German film stubs
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