''Gently My Songs Entreat'' (German: ') is a 1933 Austrian-German musical film directed by

Willi Forst Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one ...

and starring Marta Eggerth,

Luise Ullrich Luise Ullrich (31 October 1910 – 21 January 1985) was an Austrian actress. She was born in Vienna. While still a teenager, she got a stage contract. In late 1932, Ullrich played opposite Werner Krauss in "Rauhnacht" in Berlin. In 1933, sh ...

and

Hans Jaray Hans Jaray (1906–1990) was an Austrian actor and playwright. He also wrote and directed several television films. Jaray starred as a leading man in a number of 1930s films, such as the Schubert biopic ''Gently My Songs Entreat'' (1933).Bergfelde ...

. The film was shot at the

Sievering Studios Sievering Studios were film production studios located in Sievering, a suburb of the Austrian capital Vienna. The studios were established in 1916 by the film pioneer Alexander Kolowrat for use by his Sascha-Film. After the First World War they f ...

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

with art direction by

Julius von Borsody Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His yo ...

. The film is a biopic of the composer

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...

(1797–1828). It was Forst's directorial debut. A British version was made called ''

Unfinished Symphony An unfinished symphony is a fragment of a symphony, by a particular composer, that musicians and academics consider incomplete or unfinished for various reasons. The archetypal unfinished symphony is Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (sometimes ...

''. The German title refers to the first line of the Lied "Ständchen" (Serenade) from Schubert's collection ''

Schwanengesang ''Schwanengesang ( Swan Song)'', 957, is a collection of 14 songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously: # Liebesbotschaft (text: Ludwig Rellstab) # Kriegers Ahnung (Rellstab) # Frühlingssehnsucht (Rells ...

'', "the most famous serenade in the world", which Eggerth performs in the film.

Cast

* Marta Eggerth as Countess Eszterhazy *

as Emmi Passenter *

as Franz Schubert * Hans Moser as pawnbroker Passenter *

Otto Treßler Otto Treßler, also Otto Tressler, (13 April 1871 – 27 April 1965) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1915 and 1962. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Vienna, Austria. He was ...

as Count Esterhazy *

Hans Olden Hans Olden (1892–1975) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Olden appeared in more than eighty films during his career, mostly in Austria but occasionally also in Germany. He was a supporter of the Austrian Nazi Party, his interest in Nazism p ...

as Hüttenbrener *

Raoul Aslan Raoul Aslan ( hy, Ռաուլ Ասլան, born Tigran Aslanyan, Armenian: Տիգրան Ասլանյան; 16 October 1886 – 17 June 1958) was an Austrian theater actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry. Life Born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now in ...

as Salieri * Blanka Glossy as Schubert's landlady * Anna Kallina as Countess Kinsky * as Lieutenant Folliot * Gucki Wippel as Maria * Ernst Arndt *

Karl Forest Karl Forest (1874–1944) was an Austrian actor. He was married to the actress Traute Carlsen. Selected filmography * ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (1923) * '' The Money Devil'' (1923) * '' Boarding House Groonen'' (1925) * ''The Guardsman'' (1925) * ...

References

Bibliography

* Dassanowsky, Robert. ''World Film Locations: Vienna''. Intellect Books, 2012. * Hake, Sabine. ''Popular Cinema of the Third Reich''. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

* * , Schubert's song, sung by Marta Eggerth 1933 films 1933 musical films 1930s biographical films Austrian musical films Austrian biographical films German musical films German biographical films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Willi Forst Films set in the 1820s Films set in Vienna Films about classical music and musicians German multilingual films Cultural depictions of Franz Schubert Films about composers Cine-Allianz films Austrian black-and-white films German black-and-white films 1933 multilingual films Austrian multilingual films 1930s German films Films shot at Sievering Studios {{bio-film-stub