A Song for You

Apr 14, 1933

1h 29m

★ 0.0

Overview

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Riccardo Gatti

Jan Kiepura

Lixie

Jenny Jugo

Charlie

Paul Kemp

Tante Ida

Ida Wüst

Baron Kleeberg

Ralph Arthur Roberts

Schindler

Paul Hörbiger

Rundfunkbeamter

Julius Falkenstein

Hausner

Hans Junkermann

Theo Bruckner

Karl Stepanek

Opern-Regisseur

Leonard Steckel

Frau Vogelmeyer

Maria Koppenhöfer

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7.3

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5.7

Roman Scandals

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0.0

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6.1

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6.9

The Emperor and the Golem

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6.5

The Kaiser's Lackey

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Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

6.9

Try and Win

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8.0

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7.5

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7.2

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5.7

A Glass of Beer

Aug 12, 1955

Marci is drafted from a typical block building in the 6th district in Pest. He says good-bye to Juli living in the same house, with whom they are both very much fond of each other, but neither of them makes a confession. Juli works in a factory, and with her friend Gizus she goes out in the evening for dancing and drinking. After a year, Marci comes back for holiday, he is full of love.

6.8

That Night of Varennes

May 15, 1982

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

8.2

Keep Your Chin Up!

Aug 19, 1954

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5.3

The Stranger and the Gunfighter

Jan 1, 1974

During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured, sentenced, and is about to be hanged - and he never profitted from Wang's death, has he buried him with the photographs of his four widows, and a few worthless papers. Meanwhile, Ho comes to America in search of his uncle's fortune, and must get Dakota free, as he his the only man who can lead him to Wang's tomb. They open the tomb, retaking the pictures of Wang's widows. It happens he reads the papers and knows that Wang had one quarter of a map tattooed in each of his women's buttocks. Now, the difficult part will really start... Treasure hunt.

7.0

Sun Valley Serenade

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5.5

Child of the Danube

May 15, 1950

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father. She works as a waitress in her aunt's inn, entertaining the guests with singing and dancing. Her greatest dream is to save enough money to repair the old barge and sail down the Danube. One day, she meets three young artists, Georg, Oskar, and Christoph, who all fall in love with her. Together, they put on an open-air revue and raise the necessary money. And with Georg, Marika is lucky in love.

5.6

The Beggar Student

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6.9

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6.9

Three Little Pigs

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