The Stars Shine (film)

The Stars Shine original title Es leuchten die Sterne is a 1938 German musical revue directed by Hans H. Zerlett and written by Zerlett and Hans Hannes.

Es leuchten die Sterne was a remake of the 1930 Tobis film Die Groe Sehnsucht The Great Yearning, directed by Stefan Szekely, a Hungarian Jew. The remake was created as a Busby Berkeleystyle musical set inside a movie studio, and featured appearances by numerous stage personalities, athletes, and Tobis Films stars. Joseph Goebbels was Propaganda Minister and considered entertainment films to be the best type of media with which to convey the political message of the Nazi regime. Es leuchten die Sterne was created, as were many German films of the period, to act as a propaganda piece promoting the Third Reich as a cultural entity.The film was first released in Germany on March 17, 1938. This was followed by a release in the Netherlands on April 29, and then in the United States on Mayas The Stars Shine. It was released in various countries under different titles in Belgium as Als de sterren schitteren Flemish and as Quand les toiles brillent French in Italy as Brillano le stelle in Denmark as Funklende stjerner in Greece as Lampoun t asteria in France as Les toiles brillent and as Vedettes follies and in the Netherlands as Parade der sterren and Sterrenparade. The film was released on DVD in its original German version on July 21, 2008 by Warner Home Video. ........

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