''Enjoy Yourselves'' (german: Freut Euch des Lebens) is a 1934 German
musical
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comedy film
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directed by
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era.
Life and career
Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...
and starring
Dorit Kreysler
Dorit Kreysler (1909–1999) was an Austrian film actress.Goble p.338
Filmography
* ''Enjoy Yourselves'' (1934)
* ''Mr. Kobin Seeks Adventure'' (1934)
* ''Jungfrau gegen Mönch'' (1934)
* '' Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935)
* ''A Night on the Dan ...
,
Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Life and career
Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...
and
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner (6 October 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a German actor, film director and theatre director.
Beginnings
He was born in Lubawka, Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the directo ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Artur Günther
Artur Günther (1893–1972) was a German art director.Giesen p.202 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during a lengthy career.
Selected filmography
* '' When the Dead Speak'' (1917)
* '' Ikarus, the Flying Man'' (1918)
* ''Alraun ...
and
Benno von Arent
Benno von Arent (19 July 1898 – 14 October 1956) was a Nazi Germany, German film director, artist, architect, designer and a member of the Nazi Party and SS.
Early life
Arent was born Benno Georg Eduard Wilhelm Joachim von Arent in Görlitz ...
. It premiered at the
Ufa-Palast am Zoo
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in
Berlin
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.
Synopsis
Gusti is a popular
waitress
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until one of the customers complains and she loses her job at the
restaurant
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. She accompanies a friend on a trip to the
resort town
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Zugspitze
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in the
Bavarian Alps
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Geography
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where she encounters the customer again and seeks to get her revenge on him.
Cast
*
Dorit Kreysler
Dorit Kreysler (1909–1999) was an Austrian film actress.Goble p.338
Filmography
* ''Enjoy Yourselves'' (1934)
* ''Mr. Kobin Seeks Adventure'' (1934)
* ''Jungfrau gegen Mönch'' (1934)
* '' Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935)
* ''A Night on the Dan ...
as Gusti Melzer, waitress at "Bratwurstglöckl"
*
Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Life and career
Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...
as Camilla Raveck
*
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner (6 October 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a German actor, film director and theatre director.
Beginnings
He was born in Lubawka, Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the directo ...
as Carl Maria
*
Leo Slezak
Leo Slezak (; 18 August 1873 – 1 June 1946) was a Moravian dramatic tenor. He was associated in particular with Austrian opera as well as the title role in Verdi's ''Otello''. He is the father of actors Walter Slezak and Margarete Slezak and ...
as Gottfried Bumm, vocal pedagogue
*
Eugen Rex
Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to:
* Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923
* Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and pat ...
as Emil Weissberg
*
Anton Pointner
Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well ...
as Igo von Lindstedt
*
Gertrud Wolle
Gertrud Wolle (11 March 1891 – 6 July 1952) was a German film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Die Insel der Glücklichen'' (1919)
* ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919)
* ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921)
* '' A Glass of Water'' (1923)
* ''Burglars'' (1 ...
as Frau Senkpiel
References
Bibliography
* Rentschler, Eric. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links
*
Films of Nazi Germany
German musical comedy films
1934 musical comedy films
Films directed by Hans Steinhoff
Films set in the Alps
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
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