Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!
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German | Nur nicht weich werden, Susanne! |
Directed by | Arzén von Cserépy |
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Cinematography | Guido Seeber |
Edited by | Willy Zeunert |
Music by | Erwin Offeney Marc Roland |
Production company | Cserepy-Tonfilmproduktion |
Distributed by | Normalton-Film |
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Country | Germany |
Language | German |
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.
Plot[]
A young woman's attempts to break into the film industry are thwarted by two unscrupulous producers.[1]<
Background[]
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.[1]
The film was a success, however, for the young actress Hilde Krüger. Following this film, she was given the patronage of Goebbels. She was to appear in twenty more films, and went on to be a spy for Germany.[2]
Cast[]
- Jessie Vihrog as Susanne Kirchner
- Veit Harlan as Georg Brinkmann
- Willi Schur as General manager Sally Gold
- Ernst Rotmund as Production manager Archinowitz
- Maly Delschaft as Film diva
- Harry Frank as Film star
- Eugen Rex as director
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow as detective
- Rotraut Richter as Grete
- Ellen Bang as Lilli
- Josef Dahmen as Kurvenkarl
- Heinz Berghaus
- Gerhard Dammann
- Josefine Dora as Aunt Frieda
- Hugo Flink as editor
- Aribert Grimmer as commissioner
- Karl Harbacher
- Max Hochstetter
- Maria Krahn
- Hilde Krüger
- Hermann Picha
- Karl Platen
- Max Ralph-Ostermann as Schmidt - Lawyer
- Carla Rust
- Ernst Albert Schaach as Vice president
- Robert Thiem as Fredy Miller - director's assistant
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 69. ISBN 0520014898. LCCN 69016739.
- ^ Verführungskunst war ihre Waffe, Spiegel online, Retrieved 24 July 2016.
External links[]
- 1935 films
- German-language films
- 1935 drama films
- German drama films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- Films directed by Arzén von Cserépy
- Films about filmmaking
- Nazi propaganda films
- German black-and-white films
- 1930s German film stubs