The Bartered Bride (1932 film)
- Willi Domgraf - Fassbaender: Hans
- Jarmila Novotna: Marie
- Otto Wernicke: matchmaker Kezal
- Hermann Kner: Micha
- Maria Janowska: Agnes, wife of Micah
- Paul Kemp: Wenzel
- Karl Valentin: Rudolph Brummer
- Liesl Karlstadt: Katinka Brummer
- Anne Marie Sorensen: Esmeralda Brummer
- Max Nadler: Mayor
- Max Schreck: Muff
- Therese Giehse: Advertiser of the photographer
- Beppo Brem: a swain
- Kurt Horwitz: singer
- Dominik extinguisher
The Bartered Bride is one of Max Ophüls 1932 film adaptation rolling of the Comic Opera The Bartered Bride by Bedrich Smetana. This production was the first film to opera.
Action
1859 at a church festival in Bohemia. The matchmaker Kezal wants to couple the mayor's daughter Marie Wenzel, the son of the rich Micah. Marie but falls in love with the coaching Hans and hides him in the commotion of the fair feast.
Meanwhile, the traveling circus Brummer has arrived, and Wenzel has his eye on the artist Esmeralda, Ringmaster Brummers foster daughter. The parents of Marie and Wenzel are unhappy with this development. So Marie is locked up in her room, and the circus is replaced by the mayor not be allowed to show.
Hans Kezal offers 300 florins, if he waives Marie, and when he takes the money gets around that he had sold his bride. The humiliated Marie is now ready to marry Wenzel. Hans has the money but only accepted because it needs the circus to be able to play. As a circus bear breaks and Hans Marie saves her from him, everything comes back into balance. The parents give their consent, Wenceslas gets Esmeralda, and even Kezal receives his expenses twice refunded.
Background
The film was shot on 16 May 1932 and in June 1932 in the area of Munich and the Emelka Studios in Munich Geiselgasteig. In order to create a realistic atmosphere fair as possible, real fair people were hired who came with their families to Geiselgasteig. Karl Valentin is supported by Liesl Karlstadt to experience in his first sound film, and Beppo Brem had a silent role in his first film appearance at all.
With the publicity " first opera sound film - world premiere " of the film on August 18, 1932 in Munich and on September 2, 1932, started in Berlin. The audience took the movie to great applause. The fast-paced, interspersed with many field studies and strongly influenced musical work meant for the Max Ophüls hitherto little known breakthrough as a director.
Reviews
" The parodic and peppy staging introduced consisting of opera stars and popular actors ensemble together. The clash between these different worlds owes the comedy its liveliness and humor. "
" Ophüls directed peppy, easy, parody ... The film set aesthetic standards for a new genre, the opera movie."
" In slight accent shift adapted version of Smetana 's comic opera of the same name, who lives by the virtuoso use of the camera, the naturalness of the scene, the ironic flavor and the comedic performances of Karl Valentin in the first place. Of great charm and the successful implementation of music in film compositions. "