Melody of the Heart
Melody of the Heart | |
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Universum Film AG | |
Distributed by | Universum Film AG |
Release date | 16 December 1929 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Melody of the Heart (German: Melodie des Herzens) is a 1929 German musical film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Dita Parlo, Willy Fritsch and Gerő Mály.
The film was the first successful
Universum Film AG (Ufa) and was credited with establishing the popularity of the operetta film. It was shot in Hungary. Initially the film was intended to be silent, but halfway through production its producer Erich Pommer was ordered by his superiors to convert it into a sound film.[1]
Ufa had recently made a deal with the Klangfilm syndicate (consisting of
The film premiered at the
dubbing
became more widespread.
Cast
- Dita Parlo as Julia Balog
- Willy Fritsch as János Garas
- Gerő Mály as Vater Garas
- Marcsa Simon as Mutter Garas
- János Körmendy as Vater Kovács
- Juliska Ligeti as Mutter Kovács
- Anni Mewes as Anna Kovács
- Tomy Endrey as Der kleine Kovács
- Ilka Grüning as Fräulein Czibulka
- László Dezsõffy as Zugführer Benézel
See also
References
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Ford, Fiona (2011). The film music of Edmund Meisel (1894–1930) (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- Gomery, Douglas (1976). "Tri-Ergon, Tobis-Klangfilm, and the Coming of Sound". Cinema Journal. 16 (1). University of Texas Press, on behalf of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies: 51–61. JSTOR 1225449.
- Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
- Rogowski, Christian. The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy. Camden House, 2010.
External links
- Melody of the Heart at IMDb