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I saw this movie in the theater and on the video as well. It was more compelling on a ample shroud, of course, but it is watchable more than one time, also. The production values, salvage, musical dubbing and sets are first rate; the ensemble actors do a astounding job of making the viewer gain it is really they who are vocalizing, not lip-synching. You grow to really savor these fellows as individuals during the course of the movie and you really care about what will happen to their lives. The other reviews mentioned how dramatic is the narrative line, but it is the developing team work of the singers which carries the momentum. from the first hilarious meeting-up scenes to the thrilling stage presentations of their performances. I can’t occupy feeling more flooded with emotion during a movie than while watching the scene of their last performance in a career sever short because of Nazi anti-Jew regulations in the 1930s. At the terminate of the movie, there is a reprise in which you collect a written describe on how their later lives turned out. It’s quite surprising.
While the movie’s overriding message is one of colossal sympathy for all the victims of Nazi persecution, the subtext, equally noteworthy, is the evanescence of live-performance art. The non-Jewish Harmonists, especially the bass, arrive across in a respectable draw that surely must picture some ordinary German citizens of that time. This is a immense movie indeed! Note: A couple of the Harmonists were party animals, and the R rating comes from a few scenes with brief female nudity.
In 1927 in Berlin, Harry Frommermann (Ulrich Noethen), a dreadful, talented musician, puts an ad in a paper asking that anyone enthusiastic in forming a singing group meet with him. Robert Biberti (Ben Becker) shows up, equally bad but brash, confident, bulky of drive. Soon there are five of them, plus the piano accompanist. They are all young, all talented singers, all unknown. Frommermann is the creative force, choosing the songs and creating the vocal arrangements. And of the six, three are Jews (including Frommermann), and three are gentile (including Biberti) . By the raze of 1927 they have become a stout success in Germany as The Comedian Harmonists. The construct in white tie and tails, assert complex harmonies, all sorts of songs, and exhaust their voices to imitate instruments. In the next few years their success extends to Europe and the United States. Some say, even now, that they are one of the greatest vocal groups of the century. After Hitler comes to power they are like a flash banned from singing any songs written by Jews. Even so, they absorb their popularity will provide them protection. At the raze of a successful tour in the United States they debate about returning to Germany, but resolve to go relieve where their friends and families are. In 1934, the group is banned from performing in public, and the Nazis strongly hint that the Aryan members of the group should reform without the Jewish members. Eventually the Jews leave Germany and the Aryan members quit assign. Both earn recent groups but without any particular success. Both groups disband in 1941.
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This movie works on many levels:
–It’s a clear-eyed thought of the growing racist changes in German society after Hitler comes to power. It shows how people didn’t want to gaze what was happening around them. A Jewish music shop owner who has racist slogans painted on her window blames it on kids.
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–It tells not only the sage of The Comedian Harmonists, but the stories of the individual members. One Aryan who is married to a Jew divorces her as soon as he can and eventually marries the daughter of a wealthy Nazi. The Aryan girlfriend of a Jewish member of the group unhesitatingly converts to Judaism so they can marry in his faith. They eventually wind up in San Francisco in a delighted marriage that lasted over fifty years. One Aryan member (Biberti) helped make rocket bombs during the war. One Jewish member (Frommermann) became a U.S. citizen, immediately joined the Army and spent the war years intelligent U.S. troops. One Jewish member after the war became a manufacturer of view glass frames.
–It resurrects the style and skill of The Comedian Harmonists, who in America have been long forgotten. Throughout the movie the group performs some of their best songs, with the actors expertly lip synching to superbly restored recent recordings.
There are many movies which point to the impact of Nazism in the Thirties and Forties. I teach the fate of a successful singing group, in that context, might not be considered worth too powerful attention. But this is an accomplished movie, with huge acting. It is spirited and enormously affecting. It’s a movie well worth having. The DVD transfer is pleasurable.
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