Bonjour Kathrin

This film seems a bit like a prototype of the films that the great entertainer Caterina Valente would make in the following years for Artur Brauner's CCC-Film. The plot is based on the comedy operetta "The Happiest Woman in the World - The Pompadour's Bed" by Kurt Feltz and Max Wallner, music by Fred Raymond. For example, "Come with me to Italy for a while" is sung. The plot is wonderfully inconsequential, but all the stars who would also appear in later Caterina Valente films are involved. Of course, brother Silvio Francesco, Rudolf Vogel, Helen Vita and Dietmar Schönherr as the smart boy of hearts. Special casts promise full-blooded entertainer Peter Alexander (who unfortunately remains a bit pale) and the later quiz master Hans Joachim Kulenkampff (Einer wird gewinnen) as the revue's impresario.

It is also interesting that the film was produced by Alfred Greven in a studio in Wiesbaden, who was already very successful during the UFA era and then became infamous through his work for the Continental in Paris (studios in Boulogne Billancourt). If you are interested in this time, the film "The Passierschein / Laissez-Passer" by Bertrand Tavernier is strongly recommended.

But back to the undisputed star of the film, which - unlike the ones produced by Brauner - still seems very playful and almost like an experimental film.

Caterina Valente is now 93 years old. The German-speaking film community should definitely not forget that it had and still has such a star in its ranks!!!