It's You I Have Loved
- Mady Christians: Inge Lund
- Walter Jankuhn: Otto Radney
- Hans Stüwe: Dr. Hubert Baumgart
- Marion Conradi: Mariechen
- Karl Platen: Upper director Lechner
- Sophie Pagay: housekeeper Mrs. Werner
- Trude Berliner: Edith Karin
- Fritz Alberti: Judicial grains
- Hans Mierendorff: Director Summer
- Jaro Fürth: Sanitätsrat Brink
- Hans Sternberg: theater director
- Hermann Picha: stage manager
- André pilot: master of ceremonies
- Alfred Loretto: Stage porter
- Werner Alberti: Composer
- Julius E. Herrmann: critics
Thee have I loved is an early German sound film from the year 1929. Directed by Rudolf Walther -Fein Mady Christians took over the lead female role.
Action
The singer Inge Lund celebrates a great triumph at a gala premiere of a new operetta. Overwhelmed by this success, Inge's stage partner Otto Radney pushing for and after a few glasses of alcohol her new lover. But when she later Dr. Hubert Baumgart get to know little, she falls head over heels for him. Both married and the singer is for his sake her stage career. But her freshly wedded husband will soon only a little time for them, and then Inge dedicated devotion soon with her little daughter Marie, called Mariechen.
Inge misses her old life very much, the stage, the applause and the spotlight. And so one thing leads to another, when one day Otto Radney in their city a guest. Through an indiscretion of a jealous colleague created the rumor that Inge had freshened up the dormant relationship with her former lover again. When her husband finds out, he wants a divorce. Mariechen is removed from the allegedly adulterous mother and awarded to the father.
In order to provide for their livelihood, must Inge back to work and trying to get a foothold again in their old profession. But finding a new commitment, proving to be extremely difficult. And they can no longer connect to the old successes of the past also. Inge's roles are getting smaller, and soon she disappears as an ensemble member of the choir. When she guest appearances in the city her ex-husband, Inge visited her secretly withdrawn child Mariechen. As Baumgart witnessed a touching scene between mother and child, his heart is softened, and he seeks reconciliation with his ex-wife.
Production
The film is only one reason of film- historical significance: it is considered the first fully owned in Germany turned, full-length Tonspielfilm. It is therefore, unlike any previously rotated and listed in Germany full-length, German Tonspielfilme, the first film in which all the dialogues are heard.
Thee have I loved was premiered on 22 November 1929 in two cinemas in Berlin
The monitoring of the Tri -Ergon Tonverfahrens Tobis took over the Tonspezialist Dr. Guido Bagier.
The lyrics to the music Werner Schmidt- Boelcke wrote Bruno Balz. The Filmbauten created Botho Höfer, Hans Minzloff and Erich Czerwonski.
From the film also a French version was produced in parallel under the title Mon amour.
Thee have I loved was a considerable box office success and was therefore interesting for the U.S. market. There, in New York, he ran under the title Because I Loved You on January 24, 1930. Further performances were in the same year in the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Finland.
Criticism
The contemporary critics did not go with the movie just gracious to ( " ... if the daily press more than cautious with their praise, because they also still the autonomy of sound film and good sound technique misses " ), as Oskar Kalbus in Becoming report of German Art House knew.
This was the conclusion, for example, the Berlin stock exchange Courier: " First impression of sound reproduction: simply hideous, but then gradually get used to it and finally has an action so mesmerized that you will find the whole thing even quite nice. Disturbingly, it is of course to be able to do without the control room on a discreet background music, the dialogue scenes did not believe. Furthermore, that a number of vocal performances are all too clearly inserted ad hoc, just because the film now can sing falls on a uncomfortable. You can tell the intention and you will be out of tune .... "