''It's You I Have Loved'' (german: Dich hab ich geliebt) is a 1929
German drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring
Mady Christians
Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951) was an Austrian actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Biography
She ...
,
Walter Jankuhn, and
Hans Stüwe. It is considered the first full
sound film
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to be made in Germany (following part-sound films which had been released earlier in the year). When it was released in the
United States
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, the film's plot was compared to that of ''
The Jazz Singer
''The Jazz Singer'' is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolate ...
''. It is also known as ''Because I Loved You''.
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1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1929 drama films
German drama films
1920s German-language films
Films directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
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