Flaming Hearts
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Produced by | Walter Bockmayer |
Starring | Peter Kern |
Cinematography | Horst Knechtel |
Edited by | Ila von Hasperg |
Music by | Michael Rother |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Flaming Hearts (German: Flammende Herzen) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Walter Bockmayer and . It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Michael Rother produced the music for the film which was released the previous year as his debut solo album Flammende Herzen.
Plot[]
Peter Huber (Peter Kern), the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber (Barbara Valentin), the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German émigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.
Cast[]
- Peter Kern – Peter Huber
- Barbara Valentin – Karola Faber
- – Anna Schlätel
- – Magda Weberscheid
- – Frau Geisler
- – Herr Geisler
- – Conferencier
- Armin Meier – Fahrer
- – Verkäuferin
- Evelyn Künneke – Sängerin im Lokal
References[]
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Flaming Hearts". imdb.com. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
External links[]
- 1978 films
- German-language films
- 1978 drama films
- 1970s comedy-drama films
- West German films
- German drama films
- Films directed by Walter Bockmayer
- Films set in New York City
- 1978 comedy films
- 1970s German film stubs