''A Heart Beats for You'' (german: Ein Herz schlägt für dich) is a 1949 German
romance film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
directed by
Joe Stöckel
Josef "Joe" Stöckel (27 September 1894, Munich – 14 June 1959) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director.
Selected filmography Actor
* ''The Villa in Tiergarten Park'' (1927)
* '' The Champion Shot'' (1932)
* '' S.A.-Mann Brand'' (193 ...
and starring
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Florentine'' (1937)
* ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922
* ''Krambambuli'' ( ...
,
Annelies Reinhold and
Franz Loskarn
Franz Loskarn (3 May 1890 – 22 April 1978) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928)
* '' Almenrausch and Edelweiss'' (1928)
* '' Love on Skis'' (1928)
* '' Restless Hearts'' (1928)
* '' Tracks in the S ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 374]
The film was shot in 1944, and was due for release in 1945 but did not premiere before the end of the war. Like several other Nazi-era films it was given a delayed release.
It was made at the
Bavaria Studios
Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film.
History
The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fir ...
in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Kurt Dürnhöfer and
Max Seefelder
Max Seefelder (1897–1970) was a German art director.Drewniak p.40 He designed the sets for around 80 films during his career.
Selected filmography
* '' The Tunnel'' (1933)
* ''The Master Detective'' (1933)
* '' Inheritance in Pretoria'' (1934)
...
.
Cast
*
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Florentine'' (1937)
* ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922
* ''Krambambuli'' ( ...
as Martin Hellwanger, Bauer
*
Annelies Reinhold as Regina, seine Frau
*
Franz Loskarn
Franz Loskarn (3 May 1890 – 22 April 1978) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928)
* '' Almenrausch and Edelweiss'' (1928)
* '' Love on Skis'' (1928)
* '' Restless Hearts'' (1928)
* '' Tracks in the S ...
as Lois, Großknecht
*
Kurt Baumann-Grandeit as Peter, Knecht
*
Klaramaria Skala
Klaramaria Skala (1921-2006) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She appeared in the 1947 historical musical film ''It's Only Love''.Mitchell p.200
Selected filmography
* '' Vienna Blood'' (1942)
* ''Late Love'' (1943)
* ''It's Only Love
...
as Gertraud, Magd
*
Paula Braend
Paula Braend (1905–1989) was a German actress.http://www.volkstheater-fan.de/actors/paula_braend.php Paula Braend
Selected filmography
* '' A Heart Beats for You'' (1949)
* '' After the Rain Comes Sunshine'' (1949)
*'' Die Alm an der Grenze' ...
as Großdirn
*
Edeltraud Schenk as Vroni, Kucheldirn
*
Michl Lang as Hagbauer, Bürgermeister
*
Hannes Keppler
Hannes is a masculine given name and a diminutive of Johannes or Hannibal.
Hannes may refer to:
* Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) Swedish chemist and Nobel-prize winner
*Hannes Aigner (born 1989), German slalom canoeist and Olympic medalist
* Hannes ...
as Erlhofer
*
Karl Skraup
Karl Skraup (31 July 1898 – 2 October 1958) was an Austrian stage and film actor. From 1947 until his death in 1958 he worked at the Volkstheater in Vienna
en, Viennese
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as Vinzenz Haunstetter, Pfannenflicker
*
Martha Kunig-Rinach as Maria Haunstetter
*
Ludwig Meier as Der kleine Andreas
*
Alfred Pongratz
Alfred may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*'' Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series
* ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne
* ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák
*"Alfred (Interl ...
as Vollmershauser, Holzhändler
*
Emil Matousek
Emil or Emile may refer to:
Literature
*'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life
*'' Emil and the Detecti ...
as Michael - sein Sohn
*
Thea Aichbichler
Thea Aichbichler Mohr (21 August 1889 – 25 June 1957) was a German actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1934 to 1957.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1889 births
1957 deaths
German film actresses ...
as Monika, seine Frau
* as Wiesmatinger - ein alter Bauer
See also
*
Überläufer
In German film history, an Überläufer (literally '' defector'') is a film that was in production under the Third Reich but only completed and premiered after the end of the Second World War. The vast majority of such films are romantic comedie ...
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1949 films
1940s romance films
German romance films
West German films
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Joe Stöckel
Bavaria Film films
Films shot at Bavaria Studios
German black-and-white films
1940s German films
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