The Alluring Goal

Name: Das lockende Ziel
Genre: Musical
Released: 1930-04-19
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Richard Tauber, Maria Elsner, Sophie Pagay

Original title: Das lockende Ziel

1930
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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Herbert Dassel in The Alluring Goal (1930)

Musical

Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failu... Read allToni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time h... Read allToni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time he misses his people, not knowing his jealous prima donna has kept them apart from him.

Director
- Max Reichmann
Writers
- Walter Forster
- Paul Hörbiger
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Max Reichmann
Writers
- Walter Forster
- Paul Hörbiger
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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6/10

Better Than Average Opera Star Vehicle

The story is supposedly inspired in part by the life of singer Richard Tauber, who here has a less masochistic role than in some of his later films, where he is often the sensitive but heavy set man heartbroken because the woman doesn't want him. The early talkie interrupts sequences for explanatory silent style captions which is a device I didn't care for because it cuts up the sound track. A Bavarian mountain village inkeeper and church singer is invited to Berlin with its bewildering impressions of big city lights though he returns at the end to sing for the wedding of a friend and his sweetheart in the village, they had been sent away from seeing him in Berlin by a mean spirited woman.