The Singing City
1930 film
- 27 October 1930 (1930-10-27)
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The Singing City (German: Die singende Stadt) is a 1930 German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Brigitte Helm and Walter Janssen.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Werndorff.
An English-language version of the film, City of Song, also directed by Gallone and starring Kiepura along with a British cast, was released in 1931.[1]
Synopsis
While holidaying in Naples, a wealthy young Austrian woman discovers the singing talents of her tour guide. He falls in love with her, but once she has taken him to Vienna to launch his career he becomes disillusioned with her lifestyle and circles of friends and returns home to Italy and his original girlfriend.
Cast
- Jan Kiepura as Giovanni Cavallone - Fremdenführer
- Brigitte Helm as Claire Landshoff - junge Witwe
- Walter Janssen as Professor Andreas Breuling
- Trude Berliner as Carmela - neapolitanisches Mädchen
- Georg Alexander as Rudi Feldegger
- Franz Maldacea as Tupf - Carmelas Bruder
- Käte Bill as Susanne - Claires Zofe
- Henry Bender as Herr Maier aus Berlin
- Hermann Blaß as Der Empfangschef
- Teddy Bill as Heini Ladenburg / Claires Verehrer
- Carl Goetz as Der Nachtportier
- Martin Kosleck as Bobby Bertling - Claires Verehrer
- Carol Ress as Marthe - Claires Zofe
- Charlie Roellinghoff as Poldi Falkner - Claires Verehrer
- Ernõ Szenes as Siegmund Königsberger - ein Konzertagent
- C.H. Todd as Mr. Parkins aus London
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Willi von Wellheim - Claires Verehrer
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.243
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- The Singing City at IMDb
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Films directed by Carmine Gallone
- Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
- The Naked Truth (1914)
- Senza colpa! (1915)
- Flower of Evil (1915)
- The Wedding March (1915)
- Sotto le tombe (1915)
- Avatar (1916)
- La falena (1916)
- Malombra (1917)
- The Thirteenth Man (1917)
- La storia di un peccato (1918)
- Redemption (1919)
- A Doll Wife (1919)
- The Sea of Naples (1919)
- On with the Motley (1920)
- The Faces of Love (1924)
- The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
- The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
- Pawns of Passion (1928)
- Land Without Women (1929)
- Ship in Distress (1929)
- The Singing City (1930)
- City of Song (1931)
- My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
- A Son from America (1932)
- Sailor's Song (1932)
- Going Gay (1933)
- My Heart Calls You (1934)
- Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
- My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
- My Heart is Calling (1935)
- Casta Diva (1935)
- If It Were Not for Music (1935)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Thank You, Madame (1936)
- Mother Song (1937)
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
- Marionette (1939)
- The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
- Eternal Melodies (1940)
- Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
- Manon Lescaut (1940)
- Beyond Love (1940)
- The Secret Lover (1941)
- First Love (1941)
- The Two Orphans (1942)
- The Queen of Navarre (1942)
- Odessa in Flames (1942)
- Harlem (1943)
- Sad Loves (1943)
- The Song of Life (1945)
- Biraghin (1946)
- Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
- The Legend of Faust (1949)
- The Force of Destiny (1950)
- Night Taxi (1950)
- Messalina (1951)
- We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
- Fatal Desire (1953)
- Puccini (1953)
- Madame Butterfly (1954)
- House of Ricordi (1954)
- Casta Diva (1954)
- Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
- Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
- Michel Strogoff (1956)
- Tosca (1956)
- Carthage in Flames (1960)
- Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
- Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
- La monaca di Monza (1962)
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