We Make Music
DirectorHelmut Käutner
Writer
Starring
Music
CinematographyJan Roth
EditingHelmuth Schönnenbeck
StudioTerra Film
DistributorDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Released8 October 1942
Runtime95 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

We Make Music (German: Wir machen Musik) is a 1942 German musical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner, starring Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa and Edith Oß.[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Mellin and Gerhard Ladner.

Plot

It is a revue film, loosely based on the stage work Karl III. und Anna von Österreich by Manfried Rössner. Karl Zimmermann, a composer whose idols are Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers, dreams of being successful with his own opera and composes popular music for fun, but does not try to publish it. His wife, Anni Pichler is a popular singer and secretly sells his popular songs so that they can make a living. When he finally completes his opera and it is rejected by the public, he realizes that his true talent is composing popular music and not dishonorable.

References

  1. ^ Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 58. doi:10.7560/734579. ISBN 0292734581. JSTOR 10.7560/734579