Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
film
FilmVideorecording

Title Midnight Revue.

Publication Info. DEFA Film Library, 1962.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Christel Bodenstein, Claus Schulz, Fanny Daal, Fred Frohberg, Gerry Wolff, Hans Klering, Helga Brauer, Jochen Thomas, Johannes Arpe, Julia Axen, Manfred Krug, Nicole Félix, Werner Lierck, Willi Schwabe
Event Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1962.
Summary Famous producer Otto Kruse brags that he will produce a successful, new kind of revue film. When the project is close to failing, he orders his stage manager to "do what it takes." Soon his young female assistant finds herself holding a dramaturg, composer and set designer hostage in a villa-with orders to keep them there until they create a cheerful revue film. The hostages fear it is impossible to please both the public and the critics. Only a young, brash, unknown musician who has insinuated himself into the group is enthusiastically inspired to create an opulent film revue and impress the young assistant producer. This East German backstage film musical-a colorful spectacle and tour de force of music and dance, is filled with clever references to Hollywood revues. It exemplifies the GDR's push to create box-office hits and compete with West German productions.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Motion pictures, German.
Foreign films.
Motion Pictures.
Comedy.
German language.
Motion pictures.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Added Author Kolditz, Gottfried, film director.
Bodenstein, Christel, actor.
Schulz, Claus, actor.
Daal, Fanny, actor.
Frohberg, Fred, actor.
Wolff, Gerry, actor.
Klering, Hans, actor.
Brauer, Helga, actor.
Thomas, Jochen, actor.
Arpe, Johannes, actor.
Axen, Julia, actor.
Krug, Manfred, actor.
Félix, Nicole, actor.
Lierck, Werner, actor.
Schwabe, Willi, actor.
DEFA Film Library (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 6371237 Kanopy