Dreaming Lips (1932 film)

The Dreaming mouth is a German - French film directed by Paul Czinner from 1932 based on the play by Henri Bernstein Mélo.

Action

Orchestral musician Peter does not care enough about his young wife Gaby. When this gets to know Peter's childhood friend Michael, she falls in love with the violin virtuoso, but lives from now on with remorse. On the one hand they do not believe in the existence of the marriage to Peter, on the other hand, they also do not want to break out of the safe married life. When Peter becomes seriously ill, she turns back to fully her husband. But the love for Michael is stronger. Desperate and without faith in a way out of their predicament emotional state she takes her own life.

Background

The film was shot in 1932 as a German version of the French original Mélo in Paris in the Pathé - Nathan studios. The premiere took place on 14 September 1932. In the French version Gaby Morlay, Pierre and Victor Blanchar Francen play the lead roles.

Director Paul Czinner and theater star Elisabeth Bergner were also a couple. This film was to be their last film together in Germany. They fled to England in 1933 and married there. Czinner and Bergner turned 1937 in the UK with Dreaming Lips a remake of this film, another in 1952 in Germany, directed by Josef von Báky with Maria Schell and OW Fischer.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: The final common German film in 1932 emigrated artist - couple Elisabeth Bergner and Paul Czinner is a sensitively directed and played adaptation of the multi- filmed melodrama by Henry Bernstein, impressively interpreted primarily as a precise woman study.
  • Photo stage on 15 September 1932: The voltage and the concentration of the feelings that are inherent to each Bergner film, are something unique that can be incorporated into any direction. The films of Elizabeth Bergner and its director Paul Czinner are without a doubt the most individual artistic achievements in the international film market. They are the expression of strong personalities of a creative will allereigenster embossing.
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