The Stars Shine (film)
The Stars Shine (Original title: Es leuchten die Sterne) |
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Directed by | Hans H. Zerlett |
Produced by | Helmut Schreiber |
Written by | Hans Hannes Hans H. Zerlett |
Starring | Ernst Fritz Fürbringer Fridtjof Mjøen Paul Verhoeven Karel Stepanek |
Music by | Paul Lincke Ernst Kirsch Leo Leux Franz R. Friedl Mathias Perl |
Cinematography | Georg Krause Bruno Mondi |
Edited by | Ella Ensink |
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Tobis Filmkunst
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Distributed by | Tobis-Filmverleih (Germany) American Tobis Company (United States) |
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Country | Nazi Germany |
Language | German |
The Stars Shine (original title Es leuchten die Sterne) is a 1938 German musical revue directed by Hans H. Zerlett and written by Zerlett and Hans Hannes.[1][2][3]
Synopsis
A young secretary leaves the country and travels to Berlin to seek work as an actress. In a comedy of errors, she is mistaken for a famous dancer, which results in her heading the cast of a star-studded musical. The plot acts as a backdrop for this musical revue film, which includes many German film, sports, and entertainment stars of the 1930s.
Background
Es leuchten die Sterne was a remake of the 1930 Tobis film Die Große Sehnsucht (The Great Yearning), directed by Stefan Szekely, a Hungarian Jew.[4] The remake was created as a Busby Berkeley-style musical set inside a movie studio,[5] and featured appearances by numerous stage personalities, athletes, and Tobis Films stars.[6] Joseph Goebbels was Propaganda Minister and considered entertainment films to be the best type of media with which to convey the political message of the Nazi regime.[7][8] Es leuchten die Sterne was created, as were many German films of the period,[9] to act as a propaganda piece promoting the Third Reich as a cultural entity.[8][10][11]
Release
The film was first released in Germany on March 17, 1938. This was followed by a release in the Netherlands on April 29, and then in the United States on May 20 as The Stars Shine.[12] It was released in various countries under different titles: in Belgium as Als de sterren schitteren (Flemish) and as Quand les étoiles brillent (French); in Italy as Brillano le stelle; in Denmark as Funklende stjerner; in Greece as Lampoun t' asteria; in France as Les étoiles brillent and as Vedettes follies; and in the Netherlands as Parade der sterren and Sterrenparade.[10] The film was released on DVD in its original German version on July 21, 2008 by Warner Home Video.[2]
Excerpts from the film were shown on German television in 1938, with La Jana present in the studio.[13]
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