The Street Song

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The Street Song
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Directed by Lupu Pick
Written by Johannes Brandt
Produced byLupu Pick
Cinematography Robert Baberske
Eugen Schüfftan
Edited byL. Kish
Music by Marc Roland
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date
  • 2 April 1931 (1931-04-02)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryGermany
Language German

The Street Song or The Streetsweeper (German: Gassenhauer) is a 1931 German musical crime film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Ina Albrecht, Ernst Busch and Albert Hoermann. [1] The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios. It is a Berlin-set film, with sets designed by art director Robert Neppach. It premiered at the Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz in the German capital. [2] The film was a considerable public success and one of its songs, "Marie, Marie," by the Comedian Harmonists, became a hit record. A separate French-language version, Les Quatre Vagabonds  [ fr ] with a different cast and music was also made.

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References

  1. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson & Kristie A. Foell. Berlin: The Symphony Continues : Orchestrating Architectural, Social, and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital. Walter de Gruyter, 2004. p.304
  2. "Gassenhauer". Filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 25 May 2025.