The Stars Shine
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| Directed by | Hans H. Zerlett |
| Written by | Hans Hannes Hans H. Zerlett |
| Produced by | Helmut Schreiber |
| Starring | Ernst Fritz Fürbringer Fridtjof Mjøen Paul Verhoeven Karel Stepanek |
| Cinematography | Georg Krause |
| Edited by | Ella Ensink |
| Music by | Paul Lincke Ernst Kirsch Leo Leux Franz R. Friedl Mathias Perl |
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| Distributed by | Tobis Film (Germany) American Tobis Company (United States) |
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| Country | Nazi Germany |
| Language | German |
The Stars Shine (German: 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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References
- ^ "Es Leuchten Die Sterne (1938)". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ a b "Es leuchten die Sterne". OnlineFilmdatenbank (in German). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Es Leuchten Die Sterne". Allmovie. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7864-3861-7.
- ^ Richard W. McCormick, Alison Guenther-Pal (2004). Richard W. McCormick, Alison Guenther-Pal (ed.). German essays on film. Volume 81 of German library. Richard W. McCormick, Alison Guenther-Pal. p. 309. ISBN 9780826415073.
- ^ Hull, David S. (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945. University of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780520014893.
- ^ Joseph Goebbels, Fred Taylor (1982). Fred Taylor (ed.). The Goebbels diaries (illustrated ed.). H. Hamilton. ISBN 9780241108932.
- ^ a b Romani, Cinzia. Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich. ISBN 0-9627613-1-1.
- ^ Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. Volume 23 of Weimar and now Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism (reprint, illustrated ed.). University of California Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780520220690.
- ^ a b Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder (2009). Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder (ed.). The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema. Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context (illustrated ed.). Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781571816559.
- ^ Leiser, Erwin (1974). Nazi cinema. Cinema two (illustrated ed.). MacMillan Publishing Company. ISBN 9780025702301.
- ^ Nugent, Frank S. (May 21, 1938). "The Screen". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ Winker, Klaus (1994). Fernsehen unterm Hakenkreuz: Organisation, Programm, Personal. Volume 1 of Medien in Geschichte und Gegenwart (in German). Böhlau. p. 231. ISBN 9783412035945.