Jan Kiepura

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Tout pour l'amour
4

Tout pour l'amour

Sep 15, 1933
A famous tenor manages to charm away a lovely young lady who was just about to be married to the opera director.
Comédie
Give Us This Night
7

Give Us This Night

Mar 06, 1936
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Zauber der Bohème
6

Zauber der Bohème

Jan 01, 1937
René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragile Denise, who wants to be a singer as himself, and they fall in love. Yet when she finds out her real condition she takes a drastic decision which will determine their fates. La Bohème arias, and more.
Romance
Das Lied einer Nacht
7

Das Lied einer Nacht

May 27, 1932
He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight
Comedy
Die singende Stadt
5.7

Die singende Stadt

Oct 27, 1930
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
Romance
My Song for You
5.5

My Song for You

Jul 30, 1934
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Romance
Opernring
1

Opernring

Jun 16, 1936
An ordinary Viennese taxi driver, Toni Kowalski, wanders into a diner, where a singing competition is taking place, and decides to take part in it. He is recognized as a maverick, the owner of an amazing voice, and is awarded the victory in the competition. Toni is patronized by an influential socialite.
Drama
Das Land des Lächelns
1
An Austrian singer and an oriental prince who loves singing, fall in love in Vienna, get married and go to his country. She discovers how different the role for women is there, and he fights the old tradition refusing to marry a princess.
Ich liebe alle Frauen
6.3

Ich liebe alle Frauen

Aug 29, 1935
Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but lazy singer, mixing up each others love-lives in the process.
Comedy
Valse brillante
1

Valse brillante

Dec 02, 1949
Une prima donna engage un homme pour prétendre être son amant afin de la protéger d'un prétendant indésirable. À son insu, il est un ténor déguisé.
Crime
Addio Mimí!
1

Addio Mimí!

Dec 02, 1949
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.
Drama
J'aime toutes les femmes
1
Jean Morena, famous operatic tenor, is determined to change his engagements for some freedom after the performance. So his manager has the idea of contracting Eugène, a grocery worker who looks just like him and is willing to become a singer, to take his place. Destiny will make them change places also in romantic business.
Comedy
La Chanson d'une nuit
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La Chanson d'une nuit

Feb 03, 1933
Le célèbre ténor italien Enrico Ferraro cumule les succès. Mais épuisé par sa vie et sans cesse bousculé par une manager despotique, il décide de fuguer en Italie. Désireux de rester anonyme, Enrico confie son identité à un inconnu rencontré pendant le voyage, Korsikoff, qui s’avère être un escroc. Mais la rencontre avec la fille du maire, Mathilde Pategg, viendra bientôt semer le trouble dans le coeur des deux hommes et poussera Enrico à se dévoiler.
Comedy
City of Song
1

City of Song

Jan 09, 1931
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.
Music
Tell Me Tonight
1

Tell Me Tonight

Oct 31, 1932
Le chanteur d'opéra Enrico Ferraro, fatigué de ses trop nombreux engagements, saute du train pour échapper à son manager et change de train pour se rendre sur la Riviera. Il se fait un ami et s'arrête dans un village, où il peut enfin prendre des vacances bien méritées, avec l'intérêt supplémentaire de rencontrer une belle fille dans les environs.
Comedy
Ein Lied für Dich
1

Ein Lied für Dich

Apr 14, 1933
During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.
Comedy
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
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The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime. Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film, each issue of Jornal had approximately ten minutes in length and covered a variety of official government acts, national political news, major sports events and other assorted social and cultural affairs. Jornal Português is not only an indispensable document for the history of Estado Novo's propaganda, but also an unparalleled audiovisual archive of 1940s Portugal.
Documentary
Mon cœur t'appelle
1

Mon cœur t'appelle

Sep 14, 1934
Le réalisateur Rosé et sa compagnie d'opéra se rendent à Monte-Carlo où ils s'attendent à un engagement pour se produire à l'opéra. Pendant la promenade en bateau, Mario, le joyeux ténor, rencontre une fille cachée dans sa cabine. Il l'aide à chanter pour son passage et bientôt Nicole est adoptée par toute la troupe
Comedy