The film was the first successful sound film produced by the German major studioUniversum Film AG (Ufa) and was credited with establishing the popularity of the operetta film. It was shot in Hungary. Initially the film was intended to be silent, but halfway through production its producer Erich Pommer was ordered by his superiors to convert it into a sound film.[1]
Ufa had recently made a deal with the Klangfilm syndicate (consisting of Siemens & Halske, AEG, and Polyphon-Werke AG (who sold Polydor records) to license the Tri-Ergon sound film system, under the name 'Ufa-Klang'.[2][3] A previous attempt in 1925 by Ufa to use an earlier version of the same system, at the time owned by Klangfilm's former competitor, Tobis, had ended in failure.[4][5]
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melody, heart, german, melodie, herzens, 1929, german, musical, film, directed, hanns, schwarz, starring, dita, parlo, willy, fritsch, gerő, mály, directed, byhanns, schwarzwritten, byhans, székelyproduced, byerich, pommerstarringdita, parlowilly, fritschgerő,. Melody of the Heart German Melodie des Herzens is a 1929 German musical film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Dita Parlo Willy Fritsch and Gero Maly Melody of the HeartDirected byHanns SchwarzWritten byHans SzekelyProduced byErich PommerStarringDita ParloWilly FritschGero MalyMarcsa SimonCinematographyGunther RittauHans SchneebergerMusic byWerner R HeymannProductioncompanyUniversum Film AGDistributed byUniversum Film AGRelease date16 December 1929 1929 12 16 Running time88 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman The film was the first successful sound film produced by the German major studio Universum Film AG Ufa and was credited with establishing the popularity of the operetta film It was shot in Hungary Initially the film was intended to be silent but halfway through production its producer Erich Pommer was ordered by his superiors to convert it into a sound film 1 Ufa had recently made a deal with the Klangfilm syndicate consisting of Siemens amp Halske AEG and Polyphon Werke AG who sold Polydor records to license the Tri Ergon sound film system under the name Ufa Klang 2 3 A previous attempt in 1925 by Ufa to use an earlier version of the same system at the time owned by Klangfilm s former competitor Tobis had ended in failure 4 5 The film premiered at the Ufa Palast am Zoo in Berlin on 16 December 1929 6 It was released in four different languages German English French and Hungarian 7 Such multiple language versions which had been pioneered by British International Pictures were popular in Europe until dubbing became more widespread Contents 1 Cast 2 See also 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External linksCast editDita Parlo as Julia Balog Willy Fritsch as Janos Garas Gero Maly as Vater Garas Marcsa Simon as Mutter Garas Janos Kormendy as Vater Kovacs Juliska Ligeti as Mutter Kovacs Anni Mewes as Anna Kovacs Tomy Endrey as Der kleine Kovacs Ilka Gruning as Fraulein Czibulka Laszlo Dezsoffy as Zugfuhrer BenezelSee also editList of early sound feature films 1926 1929 References edit Hardt p 129 Gomery p 54 Ford p 261 Ford p 217 Kreimeier pp 102 178 Hardt p 238 Rogowski 237Bibliography editBergfelder Tim amp Bock Hans Michael The Concise Cinegraph Encyclopedia of German Cinema Berghahn Books 2009 Ford Fiona 2011 The film music of Edmund Meisel 1894 1930 PDF PhD thesis University of Nottingham Retrieved 2 September 2017 Gomery Douglas 1976 Tri Ergon Tobis Klangfilm and the Coming of Sound Cinema Journal 16 1 University of Texas Press on behalf of the Society for Cinema amp Media Studies 51 61 doi 10 2307 1225449 JSTOR 1225449 Hardt Ursula From Caligari to California Erich Pommer s Life in the International Film Wars Berghahn Books 1996 Kreimeier Klaus The Ufa Story A History of Germany s Greatest Film Company 1918 1945 University of California Press 1999 Rogowski Christian The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema Rediscovering Germany s Filmic Legacy Camden House 2010 External links editMelody of the Heart at IMDb nbsp nbsp This article related to a German film of the 1920s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a musical film is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Melody of the Heart amp oldid 1222773069, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
