''It's You I Have Loved'' () 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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Rudolf Walther-Fein
Rudolf Walther-Fein (20 November 1875 – 1 May 1933) was an Austrian film director and film producer, producer of the Silent era, silent and Sound film, early sound era. He directed the first full sound film to be released in Germany ''It's You I ...
and starring
Mady Christians,
Walter Jankuhn, and
Hans Stüwe. It is considered the first full
sound film
A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, bu ...
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 part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous ...
''. It is also known as ''Because I Loved You''.
Cast
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List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound film, sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this time a variety of recording syst ...
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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
German-language drama films
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