“ Fireworks ” ( German: Feuerwerk ) is a German comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann based on the musical of the same name by Eric Charell and Jürg Amstein . The film premiered in Dusseldorf on September 16, 1954.
| Fireworks | |
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| Feuerwerk | |
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| Genre | musical comedy |
| Producer | Kurt Hoffman |
| Producer | Harald Brown |
| Author script | Herbert Witt, Felix Lutskendorf, Gunter Neumann |
| In the main cast | Lilly Palmer Romy Schneider |
| Operator | Gunther Anders, Hannes Staudinger |
| Composer | Paul Burkhard , Franz Grote |
| Film company | Neue deutsche filmgesellschaft |
| Duration | 98 minutes |
| A country | Germany |
| Tongue | Deutsch |
| Year | 1954 |
| IMDb | ID 0045763 |
Content
Story
In August 1908, a traveling circus arrived in a small German town with tours. Its director Sasha Obolsky is none other than the brother of the local owner of the garden gnome factory Albert Oberholzer, who disappeared twenty years ago. Alexander Oberholzer, as Sasha Obolsky is actually called, came to congratulate his brother on his birthday. Amazed townspeople get acquainted with his charming wife Iduna, who in a song told about her father, a famous clown, turning her head to more than one respectable family man.
The daughter of Albert Oberholzer, Anna, the circus and its director delight. Anna studies at a dance school and dreams of a metropolitan scene. Despite her love for the young gardener, Robert Anna decided to run away from home to become a circus performer, at the same time avoiding a link to her unloved childless aunt Paula. Iduna is unhappy with the close relationship that develops between Anna and her husband. Nevertheless, the runaway is accommodated for the night in a room draped in the skins of leopards and stuffed with stuffed wild animals. The girl had a nightmare about how she became an air gymnast and in one of the performances fell from a rope to hungry lions. Frightened, Anna returned to her parents' house in the morning. At the end of the film, all misunderstandings are safely resolved, the circus gives a brilliant last farewell performance and leaves.
Cast
- Lilly Palmer - Iduna
- Karl Schönböck - Alexander Oberholzer
- Romy Schneider - Anna Oberholzer
- Klaus Biederstedt - Robert
- Werner Hinz - Albert Oberholzer
- Rudolph Vogel - Uncle Gustav
- Margarita Haagen - Katie
- Ernst Waldow - Uncle Wilhelm
- Liesl Karlstadt - Aunt Bert
- Kete Haak - Carolina Oberholzer
- Lina Carstens - Aunt Paula
- Michl Lang - Uncle Fritz
- Charlotte Witchower - Aunt Alvina
- Tatyana Zais - Madame Sperling
- Willy Reichert - Station Manager
- Hans Clarin - Circus Worker
- Michael Kramer - circus worker
- Christiana Maybach - Yasmina
- Klaus Paul - Pipewright
Literature
- Das Feuerwerk. Regiebuch . Musik von Paul Burkhard. Musikalische Komödie in drei Akten von Erik Charell und Jürg Amstein. Nach einem Lustspiel von Emil Sautter. Gesangtexte von Jürg Amstein und Robert Gilbert. Musikverlag und Bühnenvertrieb Zürich, Zürich 1949, 80 S.