Today Is the Day (film)

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Today Is the Day
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Directed by Kurt Gerron
Written by Philipp Lothar Mayring
Wolfgang Wilhelm
Produced by Eugen Kürschner
Starring Hans Albers
Luise Rainer
Oskar Karlweis
Cinematography Bruno Mondi
Edited by Milo Harbich
Music by Walter Jurmann
Bronislau Kaper
Paul Mann
Stefan Weiß
Production
company
Boston-Films
Release date
  • 17 March 1933 (1933-03-17)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryGermany
Language German

Today Is the Day (German: Heut' kommt's drauf an) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Kurt Gerron and starring Hans Albers, Luise Rainer and Oskar Karlweis. [1] It features a number of jazz interludes. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Knaake and Julius von Borsody.

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It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. It was shot between December 1932 and January 1933 during the final months of the Weimar Republic. Despite its popular success the incoming Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described it as "terrible rubbish". [2] Due to their Jewish background a number of those involved with the film, including the director Gerron and star Rainer, left Germany after the Nazi takeover.

Plot

Hannes Eckmann, the leader of a Hamburg jazz group heads for Berlin to take part in a competition. He encounters Marita Costa a leader of an all-female band and falls for her. After discovering she is short of a dancer for a performance he steps into the role and is a big success. However, when she discovers his real identity as a rival conductor she believes it is all part of an underhand scheme to sabotage her ahead of the big competition.

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References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.8
  2. Moeller p.65

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