KONZERT IN TIROL
(New Film Distributors) If you happen to speak German you are likely to appreciate the Austrian production Konzert in Tirol more than the average New Zealander, for whose benefit the film has been retitled " Young Vienna Sings Again." The dialogue is all in German, and though a précis of the plot is given in English, one has to rely mainly upon the acting to. understand what it is all about. Fortunately the acting is sufficiently good to enable one to follow at least the outlines.of the story; but for myself I found the flood of unintelligible guttural German coming from the screen for 80 minutes to have a slightly soporific effect. Like eating too much lettuce. But there are plenty of other things in Konzert in Tirol to keep one awake. This simple, triangular romance of a village school teacher, a village maiden, and a sophisticated girl from the city contains some delightfully refreshing
types. The action takes place up in the snow-capped Tyrolean Mountains, near Kitzbuehl; and even more important than the adult players are the boys, good little actors all of them, who frisk in and out of the story as the pupils of the hero. These boys are doubly important in that they are actually the members of the Vienna Boys’ Choir (well known to New Zealand), and they add musical charm to the photographic excellence of the picture with several numbers, both secular and sacred, including a very impressive nativity play. They even present "The Blue Danube " in costume, dancing merrily together as they sing. The film, by the way, must have been made before the Anschluss, when Austria was still Austria, because there’s not a sign of a swastika anywhere,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 November 1939, Page 34
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288KONZERT IN TIROL New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 November 1939, Page 34
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