Richard Tauber
Рождение : 1891-05-16, Linz, Austria
Смерть : 1948-01-08
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
Canio Salvatini
Эта визуально красивая киноадаптация «Паяцев» спета на английском языке, с музыкой Леонкавалло. Синьор Канио, руководит комико-оперной труппой, гастролирующей по итальянским провинциям. На сцене Канио, одетый в клоуна, шут и балагур, смеющийся над всеми. Вне сцены он мучается от осознания того, что его прекрасная молодая жена влюблена в красивого солдата Сильвио. Эти реальные страдания в конечном итоге переходят на сцену с трагическими последствиями.
Mario Carlini
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
Karl August Franz Ludwig Josef Steidler
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
Music
A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.
Franz Schubert
Композитор Франц Шуберт (Ричард Таубер) помогает старой любви (Джейн Бакстер) выйти замуж за солдата (Карл Эсмонд) вопреки королевскому указу в Вене 1820-х годов.
Kammersänger R.Hoffmann
Herr Hoffmann is a famous widowed singer with a young daughter to raise, aided by his faithful manager. They meet a girl and Hoffmann falls for her, reluctant to believe that in fact she is in love with a musician.
Riccardo
Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.
Toni Lechner
Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time he misses his people, not knowing his jealous prima donna has kept them apart from him.
Sou Chong
A western woman falls in love with a chinese prince. When she accompanies him to his homeland, strange things await her. Based on the operetta of the same name with music by Franz Lehár and libretto by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner-Beda.
Stefan
A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.
Sänger
Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and throws him out.