Hear My Song

Hear My Song ( German Alternative title: Hear My Song - A dream come true) is a 1990 to 1991 resulting film comedy by British director and screenwriter Peter Chelsom. It is based on an authentic life story of Irish tenor Josef " Joe" Locke ( 1917-1999 ).

Action

Liverpool, in the early 1980s: the vaudeville manager Micky O'Neill wants to convince his backers from continuing to keep the over-indebted Music Hall Theater " Heartly 's " about water, by promising them a very special Artist: Joe Locke, the legendary Irish tenor, the submerged since a tax affair 25 years ago and has since entered no stage and no one knows quite know where he is and whether he is still alive, to celebrate his comeback in " Heartly 's". Surprisingly fast can be hired Joe Locke, the house is sold out, thrilled the audience: the " Heartly 's" and O'Neill's career as a theater manager and organizer seems to be backed up. But not only music-loving theater goers, but also the British tax investigators interested in the star. The supposed "Joe Locke " but still. During the debut evening of Kathleen Doyle, a beauty queen from the 1950s, with Joe at the time had an affair, identified as impostors and swindlers

Investors jump from the " Heartly 's " closes, O'Neill is, also yet left by his lover Nancy, in the ruins of his existence. But he wants to know it again and he and the ship's Ferry on the way to Ireland to seek the true Joe Locke. With the help Fintan O'Donnell, a friend who works well as an event manager, it actually manages to track down Joe Locke in the Irish province on a cattle auction, to gain his trust and to persuade him to make a comeback in the UK. Locke is aware that a return to Liverpool means to face up to its past as tax evaders and former lover of Kathleen Doyle. In " Heartly 's ", which has now degenerated into a ruin, he is a brilliant concert evening, at the end he will be arrested by the police control. In the end, Locke may disappear in the amount of acclaiming him audience, and then the "wrong" Joe Locke is arrested.

Criticism

" Hear My Song " is a late product of the New British Cinema, one of the films that immerse the viewer into a rollercoaster of emotions: you laugh, you cry, is stirred, goose bumps, and at the end one leaves the cinema with a good feeling " ( epd Film, 8/ 1992), cited in: Cimematographisches calendarium, July 1993.

Production Notes

Hear My Song started in German cinemas on 13 August 1992. He was, Ireland turned off within six weeks in County Clare. The production amounted to nearly two million pounds sterling. For his portrayal of Joe Locke Ned Beatty in 1992, nominated for a Golden Globe.

1991 in film Screenplay Alison Owen Film score Martin Walsh (film editor) Golden Globe Award
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