I Kiss Your Hand, Madame

• Harry Liedtke: Jacques / Count Lerski
• Marlene Dietrich: Laurence Gerard
• Pierre de Guingand: Adolphe Gerard
• Charles Puffy: Percy Talandier
• Richard Tauber: singer

I Kiss Your Hand, Madame is a German feature film, a silent film by director Robert operetta country from the year 1929.

Action

Count Lerski, a former Guards officer of the Czar, has lived since the October Revolution in exile in Paris. There he must earn as many other Russian aristocrats of the time, his own livelihood. He works as a waiter in a restaurant, where a certain Percy Talandier one of his regulars.

One evening learns Count Lerski by a mix randomly Laurence Gerard know, a lady of high society, which has just returned from her husband Adolphe divorce and makes Percy Talandier advances. Count Lerski and Laurence Gerard fall in love at first sight and go out together. This is viewed with suspicion by the ex-husband Adolphe Gerard and Percy Talandier, which Count Lerski finally outed as a waiter.

Believing to be the victim of an impostor, Laurence breaks outraged the relationship and tries during a restaurant visit, Lerski to publicly humiliate even reached his dismissal, but can not break his pride and dignity. When finally it turns out that " the waiter Jacques " is actually a Count Lerski, Laurence tries to recapture his favor. But the wounded pride of Lerski prohibits this, to forgive her. Finally, it comes but still have a happy ending.

Background

As one of the last silent films contains this movie from the time of transition to talkies already a short soundtrack to the musical theme of the film, the Tango I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (music: Ralph Erwin, text by Fritz Rotter ), which in the year its publication in 1928 in the interpretation of Richard Tauber was a big hit.

The film was shot on the hit out, what happened with several of then-popular hit, "Every popular hit tracks today suffers the fate of the filming. That's just immutable law. One can most comedies and comedies, if one gives the chapel a few times, the opportunity to play the hit song, name with this movie title. And the act had also written well without the Schlager. As a special attraction one has given the film a few feet sound recording on the way. Harry Liedtke sings with Tauber organ the hit of the day of the 'hand' and the ' Madame '. The many theater owners who do not have a sound-film apparatus was, said that the movie loses without these Toneinlage to its effect nothing. "

The records of Richard Tauber was used in order to synchronize a short 2 -minute song scene in which the actor Harry Liedtke was seen singing in the image. This short recording is regarded as one of the first attempts to early German sound film. It is also noteworthy that in the accompanying program to the main movie also ran two "correct" short - talkies with pop music: 1) The Orchestra Bernard Ette plays the hit Ramona ( Mabel Wayne / Fred Bargy ); Duration: four minutes. 2) The short sound film -Sketch The last song of Frank Clifford. It can be seen (1895-1963), the singer ( bass ) Ludwig Hofmann; Duration fourteen minutes.

I Kiss Your Hand, Madame was premiered on January 17, 1929 at the Berlin Tauentzienpalast. The buildings of the film comes from Robert Neppach.