Bonjour Kathrin (film)

• Peter Alexander: Pierre
• Caterina Valente: Kathrin
• Silvio Francesco Silvio
• Rudolf Vogel: Aristide Fogar
• Dietmar Schönherr: Duval
• Helen Vita: Denise
• Rolf Olsen: Lebaudi
• Hans -Joachim Kulenkampff: Columbus
• Sabine Hahn: Therese Fogar

Bonjour Kathrin is a German comedy film from 1956 with the main actors Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander. The film is based on the comedy - operetta " The happiest woman in the world" ( The bed of the Pompadour ) by Kurt Feltz, Max Wallner and Fred Raymond.

Action

Kathrin, Sylvio and Pierre are music students in Paris. Because of their financial difficulties, the bailiff must Fogar even impound their musical instruments. It allows them to keep practicing but in his camp with it. There, the trio encounters the composer Duval, who also is in financial trouble.

Duval offers the three to participate in his new revue. But the jealousy of Mr. Columbus, the revue is the finance negates this plan. Because of an escapade Diva Denise, for which he wanted to take over the financing of the Revue to Columbus withdraws from this company and are commissioned to renovate the theater in a garage.

In order to make money, Kathrin, Sylvio and Pierre worked as a maid, Page and waiters at the "Grand Hotel " in San Remo, where a large music festival to take place.

After Kathrin has, with the help of a sleeping pill which also had traveled to the festival Denise incapacitated, the young trio performs with Duval at the festival with great success.

Back in Paris, Pierre held without Kathleen's knowledge an advertising campaign to make their name known. Impressed by the, fake Pierre, reports on their interesting past lives, says to Columbus, a new revue Duval to finance with Kathrin.

Shortly before the premiere, however, succeeds the jealous Denise uncover the staged by Pierre dizziness. Columbus pulls back once again angry and all the equipment for the Revue, which had Pierre stolen from the camp of unwitting Fogar, goes back into the mass seizure.

Thus, from the first performance of the revue in reality an auction where Kathrin, Sylvio and Pierre, however, can inspire with their skills the audience. The large, unexpected success of their performance by the way is prepared for further commitment to the trio. Kathrin and Duval and Pierre and Therese found together in love in the end.

Songs

• Come a bit to Italy ( Peter Alexander, Caterina Valente Silvio Francesco )
• It's better, better, better ( Peter Alexander, Caterina Valente Silvio Francesco )
• Get in the dream boat of love ( Caterina Valente )
• Bonjour Kathrin ( Caterina Valente )
• Ghost Blues ( Peter Alexander, Caterina Valente Silvio Francesco )

Reviews

• Heyne film encyclopedia: "Revue film that occasionally gets a bit of pace. "
• Movie service: " Skillfully converted into cinematic rhythm musical, which is significantly above the level of comparable German entertainment films. Caterina Valente's temperament makes the rather thin story forgotten by a few hits of the 50s. "

Remarkably, devoted in the former GDR press this revue film more attention than in the press of the Federal Republic.

• The free word, Suhl, wrote in 1956: " One might be tempted to view the whole content as a parody of the dependent contingencies Los countless artists in West Germany " and came to the conclusion: " With the > discovered as Stars < is the solved problem of poverty and hopelessness for music students; and unfortunately for the movie. "

• Hans Mayer book in the Saxon newspaper pointed to the " bombastic radio and television hype " and the " hl poster paints " out that had been applied to the " tolerably pretty," [e ] Caterina Valente

• The märkische Union, Potsdam, said: " What stands alone, is the technical sophistication with which the strip is courting the favor of the audience, as he tries to make operetta-like art pieces, make the most of the experiment the audience tasty. The response of the audience proves that he has succeeded, unfortunately ... "