1935 movie with Claudio Arrau playing Liszt!

That’s right, it exists. They found and restored a copy recently:

icei.uchile.cl/noticias/1380 … udio-arrau

ficvaldivia.cl/project/sueno-de-amor/

Damn! Young Arrau playing several works of da :pimp: !!! I WANT A COPY!!!

Anyone has connections with the University of Chili?

8)

Fuckkkkkkkkkkk

what !!

Claudio Arrau features as Franz Liszt in Sueño de amor (Liebesträume), an 80-minute film about Franz Liszt’s life, directed by José Bohr and produced by Producciones Duquesa Olga [José Bohr] in Mexico.

The production was filmed from 1st March at Jorge Stahl’s Mexico Film Studios, and world-premiered on 4th April at the ‘Cine Palacio’ of Mexico City. It was subsequently premiered in September in Chile.

The film was projected at the Teatro Campoamor of New York on 10th January 1936, and positively reviewed as highly entertaining, well acted and supported, with excellent musical performances, and a realistic atmosphere, by critic Harry T. Smith of the New York Times on 11th January 1936.

In the film, Arrau plays the protagonist role of Liszt and performs Liszt’s compositions Liebesträume and La chasse.

[See ‘ArrauHouse’ Chronology under September 2017]

This almost sounds too good to be true.
Would make for a good April fools joke, and is only three days off:
“The production was filmed from 1st March at Jorge Stahl’s Mexico Film Studios, and world-premiered on 4th April at the ‘Cine Palacio’ of Mexico City.” :stop:

No es una broma, it really exists. :wink:
Trying to get a copy by writing the person who was in charge of the restoration…no answer so far.

I’ve heard about this way back but assumed the film is lost…

Holy dick

Ahahahah diz movie

Zo bazically dey cudnt afford

Da RECTUM 8)

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Liszt with a mustache?

hahaha diz was 1935 so basically dey could not afford da HO.

Da Ho wuz like - unleash da Pimp Mazeppa on cam?

you need to pay moi da Hoff pre-scandal Curtizz zalary fo dat 8)

any updates?

Zero. The fucker ( Luis Horta from the University of Chili) never wrote me back so I guess the copy is still being held there without making it (commercially) available for a large public.
Arrau played (of course) Liebestraum no. 3 and La Chasse in the movie.
There’s also a pianostreet post about it:
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=64364.0

Ugh!

I suppose we’ll have blue balls for 10 years?

Aaaaaand

Nothing!

Looks like it got screened once in 2017 and into the archive it goes

:frowning:

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Well at least we know he went 'stacheless

phot_02_Youth_1935_ArrauLiszt_SuenoDeAmor_Film_Mexico_FromDeLaMora_a

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We need a vid!

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