Das Wunschkonzert

[Pummelchen]

DAS WUNSCHKONZERT

http://www.ihffilm.com/33020.html

The movie revolves around a simple theme: the handsome young airforce officer Herbert (Carl Raddatz) meets the beautiful young woman Inge (Ilse Werner) at the opening of the Berlin Olympics, but on the eve of their marriage he is sent incognito to Spain as part of the Condor Legion. No time for adequate farewells.

And the years slip by without any news. Has he forsaken her?

Then by chance, while listening (with countless other millions) to Sunday’s request concert, she hears his name…Major Koch. His adoring men have put in a request on his behalf to hear the Olympic Fanfare over the radio waves. Of course! He’s alive and he hasn’t forgotten! And just as the Olympic torch ignited the flame in Berlin, so this request ignites again the feeling of hope in our young Inge. There must have been a reason for his silence. The road to reunion is not an easy one however and both circumstance and misunderstandings conspire to keep them apart until the very (happy) end.

Interwoven with this light melodrama is some rousingly patriotic newsreel footage of both the Olympic opening ceremony, and the Condor Legion in action, but there is also a second important theme: the significance of the actual Wunschkonzert performances themselves as necessary morale boosters for both the serving troops and their families at home. Goebbels understood this perfectly and apparently provided the inspiration for director Eduard von Borsody.

There are moments of comedy as we follow the escapades of two enlisted men (who were also a noted comedy duo of the period) bringing a captured pig to Berlin, and great pathos as a mother sitting alone at home listens to the powerfully moving voice of Wilhelm Streinz singing “Gute Nacht Mutter”. Her young son had recently saved his unit, but in the process had sacrificed his own life.

(review taken from the FRAU forum)













Gute Nacht Mutter

Gute Nacht Mutter, gute Nacht
Hast an mich jede Stunde gedacht
Hast dich gesorgt, gequält,
Um deinen Jungen,
Hast ihn des Abends
Beim Schlaf nicht versungen
Gute Nacht Mutter, gute Nacht
Hab dir Kummer und Sorgen gemacht.
Du hast verziehen mir,
Du hast gewacht,
Gute Nacht Mutter, gute Nacht........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyIUYN07sxM

Kind regards,
Beate

[Caen44]

I am really sorry Pummelchen and Bill, ( you know I love you both )

but that is just a simple stupid mad Goebbels Nazi propaganda film and nothing more.
No quality but easy to watch for easy mind and uncritical people.
That has nothing to do with the real life in Nazi occupated Germany at that times.
This film is just showing everything which was very important for the regime of the third Reich exept the persecution of the Jews. The main statement of that film is just to show german women that they have to be strong and tolerate everything which will happen. Ilse Werner, I hate that woman , just playing another time the "keep up cat" of the third Reich. Just another actor who played her assigned role to be a fine member of the Nazi regime. God awards her soul.
That film got from the Nazi film censorship board the predicate being state-politically precious, artistically valuably and popular valuably. Sorry to say that but I must vomit.

Best regards,

Caen44.

[Pummelchen]

My dear Alexander, I do believe you misunderstand my motives for posting this film review. I do feel it is a very important aspect in understanding the history of every day life in the Third Reich to actually study what was being written, thought and taught at the times....and yes, entertainment, whether it having a Nazi seal of approval or not helps understanding what went on in them days as well.

That has nothing to do with the real life in Nazi occupated Germany at that times.

On contrast, it has a lot to do with the real life in Germany at the time, as the cinema films were an escape to many from the horrors of war. The fact that films like "Das Wunschkonzert"

got from the Nazi film censorship board the predicate being state-politically precious, artistically valuably and popular valuably.

didn´t matter to an 18 year old, dreaming away about her love of her life fighting at the front or the soldier being entertained in a Fronttheater.........they did not feel being indoctrinated by Nazi believes while being entertained for 20 Reichspfennig in a Scala Cinema.

To me putting a link to an original film of the time, which is available with English subtitles now, is nothing more nor less than posting a youtube link to a Wochenschau filmclip, a piece of historical film.........

......I hope you still enjoy your Nikolaus chocolates after viciously puking over your keyboard.

Kind regards,
Beate

[Caen44]

Hi Pummelchen,

I really do not misunderstood your motives about posting that film. I just wanted to inform all of us what the intention behind of this film is about. Not in my dreams I would suspect that you got any motivation to be a Nazi and for that try to manipulate other people to do so.

On contrast, it has a lot to do with the real life in Germany at the time, as the cinema films were an escape to many from the horrors of war. The fact that films like "Das Wunschkonzert"

The only part this film has to do something with the real life in Germany at those times is the wishful thinking of Mr. Goebbels and the Nazi regime. That has nothing to do with the real life of every German at that time. That would be the same as I have to say "Saving Private Ryan" is a well documented and close to the truth real film about the battle of the Normandy.

Propaganda is just propadanda...it is made from people trying to manipulate the masses. Nothing more.

I know that all this films and also the Wochenschau got a very strong attraction till today... but that is the only intention of the Nazi regime behind it...nothing more.

Watching all those films you never have to forget that there is a great manipulated conception behind and that´s why they were produced in that way as they are. All this films have nothing to do with the real life in Nazi occupated Germany from 1933 - 1945. This UFA films are all nothing more than propaganda films how about the Nazi regime wishes the people have to act and fight for. Nothing more.

Best regards,

Caen44.

[Hans Gowert]

i downloaded the whole concert about a month ago, very very easy listening and enjoyable aswell.

[Caen44]

i downloaded the whole concert about a month ago, very very easy listening and enjoyable aswell.

Hi Hans,

it is not the music we are talking about, it is the film with the same name which has nothing to do with the Wunschkonzert music.

Best regards,

Caen4.

[Hans Gowert]

aaaaah right !!!

spose i should of read more then 2 lines of the post

[Franz repper]

Cean please take note it was a home front film and was used for morale of the home front . We had the same here in Finland as did the UK and US .
Some of these films have not stood the test of time unlike this film and others that were produced in NAZI Germany .
I could give this to my daughter who would sit throw this and think its nothing more than a Love move set during the war

[Caen44]

Hi folks,

Cean please take note it was a home front film and was used for morale of the home front . We had the same here in Finland as did the UK and US .

not more I have said in my statement.

I didn´t want to offend someone or saying that there will be a bad attitude behind that to offer that film.
Well...personally I would not show this film to my daughter or son or any other propaganda film until she or he would be old enough to decide on their own.

Best regards,

Caen44.

[Bill Medland]

Ilse Werner on Nazi Television
Transmitted before November 1943, as the transmitter on Amerika Haus in Berlin was destroyed in an RAF Terror raid on 23rd Nov.43.




Although I like most of the film stars from this time, Ilse Werner among them, my favorite is Kristina Söderbaum,
and of course without doubt all of the Veit Harlan productions. I collect films from the 1933-1945 period, my
specialist field is Propaganda films, which includes Kolberg (1945), Der Grosse König (1942) Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
(1934) to name but just a few, there are many hundreds more, but Veit harlan and Karl Ritter productions cannot be
beaten in my view.
Some very early films were not such good quality from the 1933 period ( Hans Westmar, Hitlerjunge Quex, Sa-Mann Brand etc)
But some of the early actors stared in the later films and propaganda got much better as the years went on.

Cheers, Bill.

[Pummelchen]

Caen44 wrote: "...it is not the music we are talking about, it is the film with the same name which has nothing to do with the Wunschkonzert music."

Notice: On the original film review it states under "Darsteller" - Heinz Goedecke, the presenter of the radio programe "Wunschkonzert"

Many well-known artists appear as themselves in the request concert programme section of the film, hosted by Heinz Goedecke:

Paul Hörbiger: "Apoloner, Apoloner bist Du"
Weiß Ferdl: Bin ich froh, ich bin kein Intellektueller
Hans Brausewetter, Heinz Rühmann, Josef Sieber: "Das kann doch einen Seemann nicht erschüttern" (song from the film Paradies der Junggesellen, 1939)
Wilhelm Strienz: Gute Nacht Mutter
Marika Rökk: In einer Nacht im Mai (song from the film Eine Nacht im Mai, 1938)
Soldiers: Soldaten sind Soldaten
Albert Bräu: clarinet solo
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Eugen Jochum: overture to the opera The Marriage of Figaro

Hence I would think the film has got something to do with the Wunschkonzert music

Kind regards,
Beate

[Gott Mit Uns]

I personally cant see the problem with the movie (then - or now). To watch it now is to be shown a glimpse of the social values that inspired the every-day man, woman and child of Nazi Germany....its no different to the hundreds of propaganda movies that the Imperial War museum here in London provides to all tiers of education in the UK - in order to further peoples understanding of A) the media of that period B) ideology and social behaviour. Part B is very important, as these films were produced as entertainment, and written by REAL people, who had values and standards and expected their movie to empart something on its audience - thus we can infer the social values held by those of the time. Yes we can pick it apart now as a propaganda movie masceraded as a love movie, but has cinema really changed THAT much in 60 years? Ok - so we have more SFX and gritt on display, but dont for a second be fooled into thinking that modern day cinema does not try to change the way we think, or that it does not impart an undertone or message to us.

I dont think that Beate really deserved the sharp reply she recieved to be honest. Now wheres my butterkeks and milk? - Gonna watch me a black'n'whitey!

[Bill Medland]

Gott mit uns wrote: "I dont think that Beate really deserved the sharp reply she recieved to be honest."

I fully agree with you Tom, it was uncalled for and unfair, as the film is available to purchase online.

Cheers, Bill.

[Pummelchen]

Early Christmas present arrived in the post today -
thanks to ebay...a bargain.



Kind regards,
Beate

[Sven Meyer]

Early Christmas present arrived in the post today -
thanks to ebay...a bargain.



Kind regards,
Beate

A beautiful lady,
Allthough i'll quess she is a bit older now