Unfinished Symphony (film)
7.8 /10 1 Votes
Music director Willy Schmidt-Gentner | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama, Musical Duration Country United Kingdom
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Director Anthony Asquith
Willi Forst Writer Benn W. Levy , Walter Reisch Release date 23 August 1934 (UK)
11 January 1935 (US) Initial release August 23, 1934 (United Kingdom) Directors Willi Forst, Anthony Asquith Screenplay Willi Forst, Benn Levy, Walter Reisch Cast Marta Eggerth (Caroline Esterhazy), Helen Chandler (Emmie Passeuter), Ronald Squire (Count Esterhazy), Frida Richard (Schuberts Landlady), Hans Jaray (Franz Schubert)Similar movies Related Willi Forst movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unfinished symphony 1934 part 1
Unfinished Symphony (1934) is a British-Austrian musical drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Mártha Eggerth, Helen Chandler, Hans Jaray, and Ronald Squire. The film is based on the story of Franz Schubert who, in the 1820s left his symphony unfinished after losing the love of his life. The film's alternate German-language version was called Gently My Songs Entreat. This title refers to the first line of the Lied "Ständchen" (Serenade) from Schubert's collection Schwanengesang, "the most famous serenade in the world", performed by Mártha Eggerth in the film.
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The unfinished symphony 1934
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Critical reception
The New York Times wrote, "with a happy unconcern for dismal historical truths, the agreeable little musical film at the Roxy pursues the history of Franz Schubert's glorious B Minor symphony along the silken paths of romance...Hans Jaray's performance reveals Schubert as a gentle and sad-faced youth, inordinately sensitive and at the same time filled with modest confidence in his genius. The well-known German actress and singer, Marta Eggerth, is the lovely aristocrat who laughed at the wrong time, and she helps the photoplay considerably with the warmth and skill of her interpretations of the Schubert songs. Helen Chandler pouts agreeably as the unhappy pawnshop maiden who loved the composer though his heart belonged to another. Despite its mediocre and sometimes wretched photography, Unfinished Symphony provides a politely winning background for the immortal lieder of the great composer."
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