If It Were Not for Music
1935 film
- Ernst von Wolzogen (novel)
- Fred Andreas
- Philipp Lothar Mayring
- Paul Hörbiger
- Willi Schaeffers
- Ida Wüst
Production
companies
companies
- Fabrikation Deutscher Filme
- Tobis Film
Release date
- 26 September 1935 (1935-09-26)
Running time
Wenn die Musik nicht wär (English: If It Were Not for Music)[1] is a 1935 German drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Paul Hörbiger, Willi Schaeffers and Ida Wüst. The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin.[2] It is based on the novel Der Kraft-Mayr by Ernst von Wolzogen. The film's art direction was by Fritz Maurischat and Karl Weber.[3]
Plot
Franz Liszt, renowned and influential, assists a piano instructor who is facing difficulties and lacks worldly experience. Liszt aids the tutor in securing a prestigious role in Munich while also protecting him from a malevolent foreign rival who seeks to win over the tutor's beloved.
Cast
- Paul Hörbiger as Florian Mayr, genannt 'Kraft-Mayr'
- Willi Schaeffers as Konsul Burmeester
- Ida Wüst as Seine Frau
- Karin Hardt as Thekla, seine Tochter
- Sybille Schmitz as Ilonka Badacz
- Harry Hardt as Baron Poldi
- Luis Rainer as Franz Liszt
- Annemarie Steinsieck as Gräfin Tockenburg
- Herta Worell as Dirigentin des Damenorchesters
- Josefine Dora as Olga, Theklas Kindermädchen
- Emmy Wyda as Frau Stoltenhagen
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Kusjmitsch von Prschitschkin
- Wolf Ackva
- Rudolf Biebrach
- Max Ernst
- Hugo Flink
- Erich Heyn
- Helga Kalkum
- Günther Langenbeck
- Morvilius
- Karl Morvilius
- Otto Sauter-Sarto
- Walter Schramm-Duncker
- Max Wilmsen
References
Bibliography
- Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
External links
- If It Were Not for Music at IMDb
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Films directed by Carmine Gallone
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- The Naked Truth (1914)
- Senza colpa! (1915)
- Flower of Evil (1915)
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- Sotto le tombe (1915)
- Avatar (1916)
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- The Thirteenth Man (1917)
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- Redemption (1919)
- A Doll Wife (1919)
- The Sea of Naples (1919)
- On with the Motley (1920)
- The Faces of Love (1924)
- The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
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- Pawns of Passion (1928)
- Land Without Women (1929)
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