Rauschende Melodien

  • Erich Arnold: Gabriel von Eisenstein
  • Jarmila Kšírova: Rosalinde von Eisenstein
  • Sonja Beautiful: maid Adele
  • Herbert Kiper: Dr. Falke
  • Gerd Frick Höffer: Prince Orlofsky
  • Rolf Christmas: Alfred
  • Hans Wocke: Prison Director Frank
  • Joseph Egger: jailer Frosch
  • Elvira star Beck: Ida
  • Hans Klering: Dr. Blind
  • Hans Alexander: Prisoner
  • Günter Beurenmeister: worshiper
  • Bob Bolander: Bersitz
  • Ursula Dückerstieg: Lady
  • Christine Fischer: Lady
  • Walter Grimm: Mr.
  • Ernst Paul Hempel: Postman
  • Hella Jansen: Lady
  • Guenter Klostermann: Officer
  • Gerhard Lau: Servant
  • Anna Lindemann: Lady
  • Herbert Mewes -Conti: worshiper
  • Walter Salow: Servant
  • Nico Turoff: Servant
  • Ernst Ullrich: Prisoner
  • Inca Unverzagt: Lady
  • Teddy Wulff: worshiper

Rushing melodies is a German musical film DEFA by Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler from the year 1955. It is based on the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss.

Action

Recently notary falcon was disgraced by Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein after a drinking binge and now wants to take revenge playful. Not least, he hopes to bring it to Prince Orlofsky after a few weeks once again laugh. After laughing Gabriel, meanwhile, is not in the mood. It is for insulting a public official for several days behind bars. Hawk asks from jailer a reprieve from Frank: For his revenge Gabriel is still participate in the evening at the dance event of Prince Orlofsky and begin his prison sentence until the next morning. To thank him hawk passes an invitation to the Prince's ball. However, Frank is intended to take the name of a French nobleman. Receive invitations, without them knowing it from each other, even Gabriel, who is to appear under the name of a French nobleman, his wife Rosalinde, whose maid Adele and Rosalinde's lover, tenor Alfred. Gabriel pretends to have already been arrested before, and can now move secretly to the ball Frank is reportedly at the meeting of the ministry, while Adele, a sick aunt advances to secretly go to the ball can. Rosalinde again, it is right that the house is empty: You can be as undisturbed meet with Alfred.

On the ball, a meeting of Frank and Gabriel who have never seen it before and now feign interest because they also keep each other for a Frenchman. Gabriel turn sees Adele, who is introduced to him as Olga, and to conquer them. Adele again mistakenly believes Frank is a theater director and is now looking for its proximity, as they like to want to be like her sister come out great on the stage. Falcon signaled prison director Frank that Gabriel will inspect the French Agency Peron next morning his prison. Frank wants to immediately cancel the detention postponement for Gabriel Eisenstein. He drives to Gabriel's home, where he finds Rosalind with Alfred, holds and detained him for Gabriel. Rosalinde is now alone and decides to go with the mask to the ball of the Prince. Here she presents herself as a Hungarian countess, sings a song and can endure the flirtations of her husband about yourself. She manages to relieve him of his pocket watch before she goes home early.

The next morning, Frank appears hungover in his prison office. Alfred the night was complaining about. Now appear Adele and her sister and want to audition the alleged theater director. Jailer Frosch in turn holds both for criminals and locking them in a cell. A short time later, Gabriel appears and he and Frank reveal their incognito. Gabriel is shaken when he learns that his wife has cheated on him with Alfred, but Rosalinde briefly shows him on his pocket watch, which she has taken from him as an alleged Hungarian countess. He, too, was never quite true. Alfred, Adele and her sister come out of prison and notary Hawk clarifies the whole comedy of errors as directed by him. Prince Orlofsky has amused heartily at the tangles. At the end of Gabriel occurs as named in the judgment of his sentence, while Rosalind and the others continue to celebrate.

Production

Rushing melodies was filmed in 1954 as the first operetta film adaptation of the DEFA. The costumes created Hans pebble creek, the Filmbauten come from Artur Günther. The film experienced on May 20, 1955 at the Berlin cinema Babylon and the DEFA film theater chestnut avenue premiered and ran on the same day in the cinema of the GDR. With around 5 million viewers counts Rushing melodies to the most visited DEFA films in the GDR. On May 27, 1955, the film was first seen at DFF 1 on television of the GDR and 2009 came out on DVD.

Criticism

Karl- Eduard von Schnitzler questioned the extent to which substances such as The bat would be filmed in socialism at all, and asked polemically: " not the cinema visitor Lizzie Würtz Pleased about that dissolve the silly 'problems' these freeloaders happy and finally in pleasure? "

The filmdienst called Rushing melodies " scenically little ambitious, illustratively, sometimes comedic. " Cinema For it was a " lame " operetta film.

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