To New Shores
- Zarah Leander: Gloria Vane ( prisoner 218)
- Willy Birgel: Sir Albert Finsbury
- Viktor Staal: Henry Hoyer
- Carola Höhn: Mary
- Erich brick: Dr. Hoyer
- Hilde by pride: Fanny
- Edwin Jurgensen: Governor
- Jakob Tiedtke: Wells Sen.
- Robert Dorsay son Bobby Wells
- Ernst Legal: Stout
- Siegfried Schürenberg: Captain Gilbert
- Iwa Wanja: Violet
- Lissy Arna: Prisoners Nelly
- Herbert Hübner: Casino Director
- Mady Rahl: soubrette
- Lina Carstens: Bänkelsängerin
- Paul Bildt: minister - Barber
- Curd Jürgens: Bobby Wells' third friend
- Werner Pledath: prosecutor
- Gustav Püttjer: 2nd observer of Gloria's conviction
- Hermann Pfeiffer: matchmakers in Parramatta
- Ekkehard Arendt: Bobby Wells' friend
- Lili Schoenborn: Zuchthäuslerin in Parramatta
- Klaus Pohl: 1 Puritans
- Ernst Benzinger: clerk at Wells
- Horst Birr: Bobby Wells' servant
To New Shores is a German film directed by Hans Detlef Sierck (later Douglas Sirk ) from the year 1937. It is based on the novel by Lovis H. Lorenz and was filmed in Studio Babelsberg in Berlin.
After some Swedish productions and the Austrian Film Premiere Zarah Leander succeeded with her first German film to new shores of the final breakthrough with the public. Not insignificant to their success were the hit of the film: " Yes Sir ", " I stand in the rain " and "dark nostalgia ", songs that Zarah Leander has put forward to the end of their careers at their concerts.
Action
The Revue Star Gloria Vane is in a relationship with the ne'er-do- Albert Finsbury, which is reassigned to serve in the royal cavalry to Australia. Out of love and to Finsburys promising military career not to endanger, it covers a check fraud, to whom he has made before his departure. Takes you to court all the blame and is deported to punishment in the penal colony Parramatta in Australia. Finsbury providing services at the same location, learns of Gloria's presence, but does not know the real reason. Because he keeps it an ordinary crime guilty he hesitates to respond to their epistolary cry for help. Finsbury recruits instead for the favor of the governor's daughter. Meanwhile, the local Farmer Henry Hoyer in love with Gloria and offers her marriage to. By law, they would be freed at a marriage from the prison camp. Gloria believes himself Finsbury abandoned and agrees half-heartedly, but flees before the wedding. On the eve of Finsburys married the governor 's daughter is finally coming to re- encounter of Albert Finsbury with Gloria Vane. From old love and new happiness to Finsburys not to stand in the way claims Gloria not to love him. With pain she rejects his offer to stay together and get married. Then Finsbury commits suicide. Gloria decides now to follow Hoyer in a life full of privation as a pioneer.
Background
With Zarah Leander as a new attraction from Sweden, the UFA was finally able to build a promising new star in the follow-up of Marlene Dietrich. The film received the title of " artistic merit " of the film laboratory.
Reviews
"Star film from the heyday of Zarah Leander, who is deported here as a popular cabaret singer in London in 1840 because of a check forgery, which they did not commit, but her lover to Australia. Expertly directed by Detlef Sierck, under the name of Douglas Sirk brought it to the master of the Hollywood melodrama later. "
"Through stylistic unity impresses this melodrama, which gave Zarah Leander opportunity to integrate their sensory impact in gender roles of heroic lovers go of feelings about everything. "
" Oppressive the women's prisons in Australia, as the camp 's inside, almost instructive patchy. Siercks guard in prison, the law was in their expressionless cruelty, stubbornly adhering to, the ancestor of many real women guards in these milieus. "