Der träumende Mund

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Peter is about to perform a Ludwig Von Beethoven concert for the first time and he needs his wife Elisabeth "Liss" (Maria Schell) there for emotional support. He claims he always plays his b... Read allPeter is about to perform a Ludwig Von Beethoven concert for the first time and he needs his wife Elisabeth "Liss" (Maria Schell) there for emotional support. He claims he always plays his best when she is there. To his surprise, his old friend Michael Sekretar is the solo violin... Read allPeter is about to perform a Ludwig Von Beethoven concert for the first time and he needs his wife Elisabeth "Liss" (Maria Schell) there for emotional support. He claims he always plays his best when she is there. To his surprise, his old friend Michael Sekretar is the solo violinist. Elisabeth is late for the performance, as usual. The moment she lays her eyes on Mich... Read all

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In the English sub-titled version, released in the USA in 1958 by DCA, there's an abrupt transition from the end of reel 3B into the beginning of reel 4A, signaling that this is most likely where the missing five minutes was deleted, most likely as a result of censorship restrictions.

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Edited into Meine Schwester Maria (2002)

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Maria SCHELL in the Footsteps of Elisabeth BERGNER

In 1953, this film drama by Münchhausen (1943) director Josef von Baky premiered in Stuttgart. The original was a film of the same name by Paul Czinner from 1932, in which the great ACADEMY AWARD nominee Elisabeth Bergner played the leading role. Henri Bernstein provided the literary template with "Melo".

Elisabeth (Maria Schell) is actually happily married to concertmaster Peter (O. W. Fischer, 1915-2004), but falls in love with the star violinist Michael (Frits van Dongen). Torn between two men, good Elisabeth doesn't know who to choose. Then fate intervenes...

It's amazing how many variations of love's suffering were offered to the dream couple Schell / Fischer. There was always something new, and there was really no boredom. And melodramas were simply extremely well received by German-speaking audiences. The rival is the Dutch actor Frits van Dongen (1901-1975), who was briefly involved with TOBIS in the 1930s before moving on to MGM in Hollywood as Philip Dorn. An interesting actor who was also seen in a few films!

The film was shot in the studio in Hamburg-Wandsbek.

The soon-to-be BAFTA AWARD nominee Maria Schell (1926-2005) scores as usual with her freshness and naturalness. No wonder that she was able to become a mega star in German-speaking countries in those years. Even greater successes in France, Italy and the USA were soon to follow.