Dreaming (1944)

Original title

Träumerei

Directed by

Harald Braun

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This German film tells the story of pianist Clara Schumann and her composer husband Robert Schumann. It follows their personal and professional lives with a focus on their artistic partnership.

biographicalromanticbittersweetslow-pacedhistoricalmusicalpoignantearnest

What happens

Dreaming (German: Träumerei) is a 1944 German historical musical drama film directed by Harald Braun and starring Hilde Krahl, Mathias Wieman and Friedrich Kayssler. It portrays the lives of the pianist Clara Schumann and her composer husband Robert Schumann. It was shot at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location around Xanten in the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz. Considered an important national film, the production received financial assistance from the government, and had a total budget of over two million reichsmarks. It premiered in Zwickau, the birthplace of Robert Schumann, two days before it was first screened at the Marmorhaus cinema in the capital. Originally, the film was going to star Zarah Leander as Clara Schumann, and movie posters featuring her were even distributed. However, Leander fled to Sweden, due to the ongoing war, and was recast. The future star Hildegard Knef shot some scenes, which would have marked her film debut, but these were left out of the final cut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Song of Love (1947)
• Philharmonic (1944)
• Anna Alt (1945)
• Die Zaubergeige (1944)
• Geliebte Clara (2008)
• Spring Symphony (1983)
• Eines Tages (1945)
• The Song of the Nightingale (1944)