Sun 05.03.
19:00
Director
Julien Duvivier
France, Germany, USA / 1932
89 min.
/ 35 mm
/ Original version
with
Josette Day, Germaine Aussay, Wolfgang Klein
Original language
German, French
Cinema
Arsenal 1
zu den Ticketszu dem KalenderEinführung: Frederik Lang
One of Duvivier's most cheerful films was a German-French-US co-production, a fast-paced comedy of love and mistaken identity about telephone operators in Paris and their colleagues at the Berlin telephone exchange. Brimming with the joy of experimentation, this multi-language film - the Germans speak German with each other, the French French, and when they meet they do their best to make themselves understood - celebrates the unifying power of the telephone, as well as the new medium of sound film, combining the best qualities of Weimar sound comedy with those of French Poetic realism. (re/fl)
Funded by:
