German Movie Hits of 1930 - Edith Lorand Orch., 1930

UFATon Bomben, Part 1,2 (Przeboje filmowe) (UFA's Film Hits of 1930) Orkiestra Parlophon, dyr. Edith Lorand, Parlophon 1930 (Polish product)

NOTE: UFA (Universum Film AG) was established in 1917 by the falling Prussian Army's Headquarters, as a purely propaganda-enterprise, with a purpose to glorify "successes" of the Prussian Army "on all fronts". A year later, with the collapse of the Prussian Empire, its status was changed. UFA became a Weimar Republic owned film production, with its studios located in the south-eastern outskirts of Berlin (Neubabelsberg, Potsdam-Babelsberg and Berlin-Tempelhof). In 1920, in the very heart of Berlin UFA opened its grandeur theatre "UFA-Palast am Zoo" where UFA movie productions, such as "Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari", "Metropolis", "Faust", "Die Büchse der Pandora" or "Dr Mabuse", filmed in UFA Studios by soon-to-become world-famous directors Fritz Lang, G.W. Pabst or Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, had their premiere shows.
Ever since 1921, when UFA bacame a privately-owned firm, its annual production reached as many as 600 films! Many of these movies were of the highest artistical quality and belong to the canon of a unique artistical phenomenon called "German expressionist cinema" of the Weimar Republic. Unfortunately, hardly 10 percent of movie production of that great era survived. In 1930, when Josef von Sternberg's „The Blue Angel" and the release of a new world superstar Marlene Dietrich gained highest international acclaim, UFA's new nickname repeated with no irony among film artists and producers was a "European Hollywood". In 1933, however, UFA's heydays were over. With onset of the nazi era in politics and culture and takeover by Doctor Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry Of Propaganda, UFA began serving strictly defined goals of a new regime.

To read a sad story about Edith Lorand's unlucky life and career, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDt_cOdBi-w

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[barbcard]

Brilliant collage; this goes beyond YT video to a "real" movie in the sense of a film. Excuse my memory lapse, but what's the name of that haunting melody starting @0:43? So familiar...Possibly I first heard it sung by the Comedian Harmonists.

[240252]

B., I'm ashamed to say, but I can't identify that well-kown tune either. It's one of those melodies our parents hummed when they did their weekly accounts by the low lamp and we watched their half-dark profiles from under the piano.

[Elberiver11]

@240252 I can identify is - please see above! Cordial greetings :)

[Elberiver11]

@barbcard It is called "Liebling mein Herz lässt dich grüßen", sorry for telling you only after a whole year lol But i saw it just now. But i am 100 percent sure it is this melody, because i know the song.

[djmusicjac]

beautiful i love weimar era music kabarett, awesome

[janofholland]

03.20 Falling in Love Again/ Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss (Der blaue Engel)

04.15 Eine Nacht in Monte Carlo (Bomben auf Monte Carlo)

04.45 Das muss ein Stuck vom Himmel sein (Der Kongress tanzt)

05.00 Das gibt's nur einmal (Der Kongress tanzt)

05.35 Ein Freund, ein guter Freund (Dei Drei von der Tankstelle)

[janofholland]

On 2.42 starts 'Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen' from the musical film 'Bomben auf Monte Carlo' (Hanns Schwarz 1931).

[mikemcgee]

this brings my addction to unpopular german film cvclassics up

[tasteism]

@240252 That's 'Liebling mein Herz laesst dich grueesen...'

[bellman606]

Das gibst nur einmal --

[Grubenpony12]

Oh, how I love this! Best Days of my Father...