Today Is the Day (German: Heut' kommt's drauf an) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Kurt Gerron and starring Hans Albers, Luise Rainer and Oskar Karlweis. It features a number of jazz interludes. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Knaake and Julius von Borsody.
It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. It was shot between December 1932 and January 1933 during the final months of the Weimar Republic. Despite its popular success the incoming Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described it as "terrible rubbish". Due to their Jewish background a number of those involved with the film, including the director Gerron and star Rainer, left Germany after the Nazi takeover.
Synopsis
Hannes Eckmann, the leader of a Hamburg jazz group heads for Berlin to take part in a competition. He encounters Marita Costa a leader of an all-female band and falls for her. After discovering she is short of a dancer for a performance he steps into the role and is a big success. However, when she discovers his real identity as a rival conductor she believes it is all part of an underhand scheme to sabotage her ahead of the big competition.
Cast
Hans Albers as Hannes Eckmann
Luise Rainer as Marita Costa
Oskar Karlweis as Peter Schlemm
Oskar Sima as Basil, Maritas Impresario
Max Gülstorff as Generaldirektor Bourth
Baby Gray as Anni, die 'Puppe'
Weintraub Syncopators as Themselves
Arthur Bergen
Teddy Bill
Albert Fischer
Max Grünberg
Mario Guido
Philipp Manning
Hanna Maron
Loni Michelis
Josef Peterhans
Werner Pledath
Ludwig Trautmann
Nico Turoff
Michael von Newlinsky
References
Bibliography
Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. Moeller, Felix. The Film Minister: Goebbels and the Cinema in the Third Reich. Edition Axel Menges, 2000.