The Stars Shine (film)
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The Stars Shine is a 1938
German
musical
revue
directed by Hans H. Zerlett and written by Zerlett and Hans Hannes.
, a Hungarian
Jew. The remake was created as a Busby Berkeley
-style musical set inside a movie studio, and featured appearances by numerous stage personalities, athletes, and Tobis Films stars. 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. Es leuchten die Sterne was created, as were many German films of the period, to act as a propaganda piece promoting the Third Reich as a cultural entity.
on April 29, and then in the United States
on May 20 as The Stars Shine. 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. The film was released on DVD
in its original German version on July 21, 2008 by Warner Home Video
.
Excerpts from the film were shown on German television in 1938, with La Jana
present in the studio.
Featured appearances:
1938 in film
The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...
German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
revue
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
directed by Hans H. Zerlett and written by Zerlett and Hans Hannes.
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 causes her to headline 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 SzekelySteve Sekely
Steve Sekely was a Hungarian film director. Born Székely István, he was known by several names, based on his changing professional and immigration status, including Stefan Szekely.He directed films in Hungarian, German, and English....
, a Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
Jew. The remake was created as a Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns...
-style musical set inside a movie studio, and featured appearances by numerous stage personalities, athletes, and Tobis Films stars. Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
was Propaganda Minister and considered entertainment films to be the best type of media with which to convey the political message
Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the NSDAP in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany...
of the Nazi regime. Es leuchten die Sterne was created, as were many German films of the period, to act as a propaganda piece promoting the Third Reich as a cultural entity.
Release
The film was first released in Germany on March 17, 1938. This was followed by a release in the NetherlandsNetherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
on April 29, and then in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on May 20 as The Stars Shine. It was released in various countries under different titles: in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
as Als de sterren schitteren (Flemish
Flemish
Flemish can refer to anything related to Flanders, and may refer directly to the following articles:*Flemish, an informal, though linguistically incorrect, name of any kind of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium....
) and as Quand les étoiles brillent (French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
); in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
as Brillano le stelle; in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
as Funklende stjerner; in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
as Lampoun t' asteria; in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
as Les étoiles brillent and as Vedettes follies; and in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
as Parade der sterren and Sterrenparade. The film was released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in its original German version on July 21, 2008 by Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...
.
Excerpts from the film were shown on German television in 1938, with La Jana
La Jana (actress)
La Jana was an Austro-German dancer and actress.-Life and career:...
present in the studio.
Cast
- La JanaLa Jana (actress)La Jana was an Austro-German dancer and actress.-Life and career:...
as The Dancer - Ernst Fritz FürbringerErnst Fritz FürbringerErnst Fritz Fürbringer was a German film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1933 and 1983.He was born in Brunswick, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Titanic...
as Hans Holger - Fridtjof MjøenFridtjof MjøenFridtjof Mjøen was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He made his stage debut at Centralteatret in 1927. He was artistical director at Det Nye Teater from 1936 to 1937. During the 1940s and 1950s he played in various films, and in audio plays at Radioteatret.-References:...
as Werner Baumann - Paul VerhoevenPaul Verhoeven (Germany)Paul Verhoeven was a German actor, writer, and film and theatre director.He had 13 siblings and the family lived in modest circumstances.He directed and acted in over 50 films, and wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was Das kleine Hofkonzert in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund...
as Gebauer - Karel StepanekKarel ŠtěpánekKarel Štěpánek was a Czech actor who spent many years in Austria and generally played German roles onscreen. In 1940 he fled to Britain and spent much of the rest of his career acting there.-Selected filmography:...
as Brandt - Arthur SchröderArthur Schröder-Selected filmography:* Hubertus Castle * The Axe of Wandsbek * Canaris Master Spy * Escape from Sahara -External links:...
as the Director - Rosita SerranoRosita SerranoRosita Serrano was a Chilean singer who had her biggest success in Nazi Germany between the 1930s and the early 1940s. Because of her bell-like voice and pitch-perfect whistling she received the nickname Chilenische Nachtigall .Rosita Serano was born in Viña del Mar, Chile on 10 June 1914...
as the Spanish singer - Hermann PfeifferHermann PfeifferLeutnant Hermann Pfeiffer was a World War I flying ace credited with eleven aerial victories.Pfeiffer joined the German army on 1 October 1913. He rose to Unteroffizier in the 114th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. He won an Iron Cross Second Class in May 1915. He then transferred to aviation, and in...
as the Production manager - Rudolf SchündlerRudolf SchündlerRudolf Ernst Paul Schündler was a German actor.- Filmography :-External links:*...
as the Insurance man - Vera Bergman as Carla Walden
- Carla Rust as Mathilde Birk
- Rudi Godden as Knutz the manager
- Elisabeth Wendt as Lisa Marwen
- Else Elster as Mrs. Knutz
- Eva Tinschmann as Mrs. Bökelmann
- Horst Birr as Kruse
- Erwin Biegel as Kellner
- Erika Steenbock as Ella the actress
- Heinz Piper as the Lyricist
- Kurt Mikulski as Böckelmann the makeup artist
Featured appearances:
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- Karl Ludwig DiehlKarl Ludwig DiehlKarl Ludwig Diehl was a German film actor. He appeared in 66 films between 1924 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Squeaker * Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen * On Secret Service...
- Käthe DorschKäthe DorschKäthe Dorsch was a German actress.-External links:*...
- Willi ForstWilli ForstWilli Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...
- Charles FrancoisCharles FrançoisCharles François, , is a Belgian administrator, editor and scientist in the field of cybernetics, systems theory and systems science, internationally known for his main work the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.- Biography :...
- Gustav FröhlichGustav FröhlichGustav Fröhlich was a German actor. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.-Biography:...
- Heinrich GeorgeHeinrich GeorgeHeinrich George , born Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz, was a German stage and film actor.He had one of his first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film Metropolis and the first film version of Berlin Alexanderplatz...
- Walter GrossWalter GrossDr. Walter Gross was a German physician appointed to create the Office for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare for the NSDAP...
- Paul HartmannPaul HartmannPaul Hartmann is the name of:* Paul Ernst Wilhelm Hartmann, Norwegian politician* Paul Hartmann , German actor* Paul Hartmann, founder of XENOVISION also brother of actor Phil Hartman...
- Hilde HildebrandHilde HildebrandHilde Hildebrand was a German actress born in Hanover, Germany on 10 September 1897. She died at the age of 78 in Grunewald, Berlin, on 28 April 1976.-Filmography:...
- Paul HörbigerPaul HörbigerPaul Hörbiger was an Austrian theatre and film actor.-Life and work:Paul Hörbiger was born in Budapest, the son of Hans Hörbiger, an engineer who wrote Welteislehre on glacial cosmology, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902 the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the...
- Paul Kemp
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- Wolfgang LiebeneinerWolfgang LiebeneinerWolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...
- Harry LiedtkeHarry Liedtke- Biography :Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he...
- Paul LinckePaul LinckeCarl Emil Paul Lincke was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the "father" of the Berlin opera and holds the same significance for Berlin as does Johann Strauss for Vienna and Jacques Offenbach for Paris.He was the son of magistrate August Lincke and and wife Emilie...
- Theo LingenTheo LingenTheo Lingen , born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.-Life and career:...
- Hans MoserHans MoserHans Moser may refer to:*Hans Moser , Austrian actor*Hans Moser , German movie director*Hans Moser , Swiss Olympic rider*Hans Joachim Moser , German composer and musicologist...
- Anny OndraAnny OndraAnny Ondra was a Czech film actress. She was born Anna Sophie Ondráková in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria–Hungary, now Poland, and died in Hollenstedt near Harburg, Germany.-Life:...
- Harald PaulsenHarald PaulsenHarald Paulsen was a German actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1920 and 1954.He was born in Elmshorn, Germany and died in Hamburg.-Selected filmography:* Desires * Die Tödlichen Träume...
- Ralph Arthur RobertsRalph Arthur Roberts-Selected filmography:* The Crazy Countess * Call at Midnight * Einbrecher * My Wife the Champion Shot * Heiratsinstitut Ida & Co * My Daughter Doesn't Do That -External links:...
- Max SchmelingMax SchmelingMaximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...
- Sybille SchmitzSybille SchmitzSybille Schmitz was a German actress.-Biography:Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt , which attracted her first attention from the critics...
- Albrecht SchoenhalsAlbrecht SchoenhalsAlbrecht Moritz James Karl Schoenhals was a German film actor.- Selected filmography :* Boccaccio * The Glass Ball * Traummusik * Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse - External links :...
- Hans SöhnkerHans SöhnkerHans Söhnker was a German film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1933 and 1980.He was born in Kiel, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Faithful * Beloved Corinna...
- Luis TrenkerLuis TrenkerLuis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...
- Olga Tschechowa
- Manfred von BrauchitschManfred von BrauchitschManfred Georg Rudolf von Brauchitsch was a German auto racing driver who drove for Mercedes-Benz in the famous "Silver Arrows" of Grand Prix motor racing in the 1930s....
- Grethe WeiserGrethe WeiserGrethe Weiser was a German actress.- Biography :Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufacturer in 1920. Her only child, a son, was born in 1922...
- Ida WüstIda WüstIda Wüst was a German stage and film actress, whose career was most prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG .-Life and career:...
External links
- The Stars Shine at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Es Leuchten Die Sterne at Allmovie