I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
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Directed by | Robert Land |
Written by | Rolf E. Vanloo |
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Music by | Pasquale Perris |
Production company | Super-Film |
Distributed by | Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | Germany |
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I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (German: Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame) is a 1929 sound German drama film directed by Robert Land starring Harry Liedtke and Marlene Dietrich. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. [1][failed verification] It was released in the United States in 1932. It was produced by Super-Film.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach.
Plot
[edit]Madame Gerard is a divorcee living the high life in Paris. Her current lover is the overweight Percy Talandier but then she meets Count Lerski and sets her sights on him. Then she hears from her ex-husband Adolphe that Lerski is not a count, but works as a waiter.
Cast
[edit]- Harry Liedtke as Jacques/Count Lerski
- Marlene Dietrich as Laurence Gerard
- Pierre de Guingand as Adolphe Gerard
- Charles Puffy as Percy Talandier
- Richard Tauber as Vocalist
Music
[edit]The theme song was entitled "Ich Küsse Ihre Hand Madame" with music by Ralph Erwin and lyrics by Fritz Rotter. The tenor Richard Tauber is heard on the soundtrack singing the theme song. The song became a world-wide hit for that year and was translated and recorded in dozens of languages. The English version was known as "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame."
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Chandler, Charlotte (2011). Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, a Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-8844-6.
External links
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- 1929 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German black-and-white films
- German silent feature films
- German drama films
- 1920s German-language films
- Films directed by Robert Land
- 1929 drama films
- Transitional sound drama films
- Films set in Paris
- Films shot in Paris
- 1920s German films
- Silent drama film stubs
- 1920s German film stubs