Child of the Danube
- Marika Rokk: Marika
- Fred Liewehr: Georg
- Harry Foot: Heinrich
- Fritz Muliar: Oskar
- Joseph Egger: Christoph
- Annie Rosar: Woman Kovacs
- Helli Servi: Edith
- Nadja Tiller: actress
- Erich Auer: Tenor
- Karl Skraup: editor
- Erika grains
- Rosl Dorena
- Lotte Martens
- Mimi Stelzer
- Edith Prague
- Rudolf Carl
- Richard Eybner
- Helmut Jana Czech
- Fred Hennings
- Oskar Wegrostek
- Ernst Waldbrunn
Child of the Danube is an Austrian musical film directed by Georg Jacoby from the year 1950. It was the first Austrian color film. In Germany, the film was also under the title The rental child of the Danube.
Action
The three friends George, Henry and Oscar drag along the Danube and looking for a place to live for the summer. After time after time neither landlord nor the room to their intentions, are writers can translate Georg alone on an old Danube, which seems deserted. Henry and Oscar sweep during which a in a location close to restaurant, where they see them dance the young Marika and listen to their songs. Both are already planning to make her a star, but is a hit songwriter and the other stage builders.
Georg, meanwhile, has been found on the barge a bed and is surprised when at night with a time Marika stands before him and wakes him rudely. She lives on the ship that once belonged to her father. It has George in the little cabin in which the friend of her late father, Christopher, earlier passed the night. George and Marika get along well until one George stays away at night and only in the morning comes back to the ship. While Marika thinks he was strolling, Georg has advertised in reality at a newspaper and was divided into the night shift for newspaper packaging. He plans Marika with the money to fulfill their biggest dream: to get the ship afloat again and as before to be able to drive along the Danube.
Henry and Oscar try meanwhile, Marika bring out as a star in the theater. When the director of the theater cancels all job interviews because of the current crisis theater, decide all rejected performer to be put under Marikas line has its own theater piece in an old amphitheater near the Danube on its feet. It is rehearsed, stage clothes arise from tablecloths and the stage decoration is handmade. The dress rehearsal runs without problems and the first performance is already sold.
George knows nothing of all this, because he sleeps during the day and worked at night. Through a colleague who has visited him once on the ship and take one of the Marika had that she has a relationship with George, it came between Marika and Georg tensions that seem to overcome, however. All the more reason Georg would also Marika report of the decision of his newspaper editor: he has agreed that George a documentary series of his life writing on a Danube ship sailing on the Danube. The cost of a float the ship and the maintenance during the trips will take over the newspaper. However, Marika decides against it, she wants as the lead actress not abandon the theater group. It comes to the break between Marika and George, who is leaving the ship during a storm. During the storm, a lightning bolt hits the theaters and everything from burns.
George, who has experience in the newspaper of the accident, returns to Marika. He convinces the troupe to start anew at another theater and launched despite difficulties an article in the newspaper asking for support of the theater group. A little later it is: In a much larger theater the premiere of the folkloric piece of theater group begins. Since the tenor can not occur because of hoarseness, George takes over his role, who also wrote the piece itself. Marika is initially less than enthusiastic when she confronts him on stage, but both come closer during the show, and finally as a couple.
Production
Child of the Danube was filmed in 1949 in Vienna studio Rose Hill and in Linz. The Atelier Rose Hill was at that time under Soviet -General and control. The press used this circumstance to anti-Soviet reporting:
" The [ Soviet ] Rose Hill movies are on, German ' opened. They are rotated with German and Austrian audience favorites and run under the unsuspecting company name, Wien-Film at Rose Hill '. [ ... ] The unsuspecting moviegoers in the Federal Republic, who get to see any movie soviet German Defa - style for years to chat with Soviet - Austrian films. They saw, for example, the colorful Marika Rokk - revue film, child of the Danube '... "
Actress Marika Rokk was in retrospect, that child of the Danube, " shot with a lot of folklore and under Russian sovereignty in the Vienna Rose Hill studios, [ ... ] in the mill of the world views [ came ] ."
The cost of the film amounted to seven million shillings. Some of material was used for the film, which was recorded before the end of World War II in 1944. The world premiere of the film took place in Vienna on 18 August 1950. In Germany the film was shown on February 24, 1951.
The film was shot in Agfacolor and was the first color film of the Austrian film history. Marika Rokk had in the first German color film women better diplomats are still in possession of the lead role.
The film score was by Nico Dostal, the lyrics written by Erich Meder. The titles were accompanied by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In dance scenes members of the Vienna State Opera Ballet are seen.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film called child of the Danube as a " [ s ] full on the skill, charm and the Hungarian- Viennese, heartedness ' Marika Rökk's built [n ] dancing and singing film with correspondingly thin storyline ".