We Make Music

We Make Music
We Make Music
	Wir machen Musik (We make music); Header of the movie from 1942
German	Wir machen Musik
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Manfried Rössner (play); Hans Effenberger; Erich Ebermayer; Helmut Käutner;
Starring	Ilse Werner; Viktor de Kowa; Edith Oß; Grethe Weiser;
Cinematography	Jan Roth
Edited by	Helmuth Schönnenbeck
Music by	Peter Igelhoff; Adolf Steimel;
Production; company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date	8 October 1942;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

We Make Music (German: Wir machen Musik) is a 1942 German musical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner, starring Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa and Edith Oß.^[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Mellin and Gerhard Ladner.

Plot

It is a revue film, loosely based on the stage work Karl III. und Anna von Österreich by Manfried Rössner. Karl Zimmermann, a composer whose idols are Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers, dreams of being successful with his own opera and composes popular music for fun, but does not try to publish it. His wife, Anni Pichler is a popular singer and secretly sells his popular songs so that they can make a living. When he finally completes his opera and it is rejected by the public, he realizes that his true talent is composing popular music and not dishonorable.

Cast

Ilse Werner as Anni Pichler
Viktor de Kowa as Paul Zimmermann
Edith Oß as Trude, a trumpeter
Grethe Weiser as Monika Bratzberger
Georg Thomalla as Franz Sperling
Rolf Weih as Peter Schäfer
Ilse Buhl as Alt-Saxophonist
Sabine Naundorff as tenor-Saxophonist
Hilde Adolphi as trombonist
Gertrud Leonhardt as guitar player
Eva Gotthardt as bass player
Kurt Seifert as Hugo Bratzberger
Victor Janson as Director Pröschke
Lotte Werkmeister as Karl's landlady, Frau Zierbarth
Helmuth Helsig as a chimney sweeper
Ewald Wenck as Gasmann Knebel
Wilhelm Bendow as stage manager
Klaus Pohl as stagehand at the Oper
Sonja Kuska as Barbara, a music teacher
Otto Braml as chairman of examiners
Curt Cappi as waiter Neumann
Friedrich Wilhelm Dann as bus-conductor
Hanne Fey as secretary of the music publishers
Robert Forsch as Mehmann, director of the music publishers
Karl Hannemann as director of the opera stage
Sonja Kuske as Barbara, music student
Karin Luesebrink as music student
Artur Malkowsky as opera singer at the premiere
Maria von Höslin as Peter's brother
Helga Warnecke as music student
Gertrud Seelhorst
Hansi Würbauer
Sabine André
Ernst Schiffner

References

^ Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 58. doi:10.7560/734579. ISBN 0292734581. JSTOR 10.7560/734579.

External links

We Make Music at IMDb

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[1] Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 58. doi:10.7560/734579. ISBN 0292734581. JSTOR 10.7560/734579.

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