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Auction History Result 2s0722 LEISE FLEHEN MEINE LIEDER linen German R1947 Willi Forst, great Heinz Fehling art, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1947 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked German "A1" Movie Poster (measures 23" x 33" [58 x 84 cm]) (Learn More) Leise Flehen Meine Lieder (literally translates to "My Songs Plead Softly"), the 1933 Willi Forst Austrian/German romantic musical biography ("Music by Franz Schubert") starring Martha Eggerth, Luise Ullrich, Hans Jaray (as Franz Schubert), Hans Moser (the most famous Austrian actor of his time), Otto Tressler, Hans Olden, and Lisl Reisch. Note that this was a highly fictionalized biography of composer Franz Schubert, and it adds a romantic section that we are not sure was based on fact. In 1934, the two leads of this movie the two leads reprised their roles in an English language version, "Unfinished Symphony", with an English and U.S. supporting cast, including Helen Chandler. That movie was released in the U.S. in 1935, with the new title "Lover Divine", and Helen Chandler was top billed, no doubt because she was well known to U.S. audiences from "Dracula" and other movies. Movie paper from this German version and the U.S. version can be easily confused, since both movies have the same two leads! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Heinz Fehling Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned three examples of this German poster, which is a "country of origin" poster for this partially German movie, and only one in the last 16 years! Also note that this is a very rare "country of origin" poster from Germany from soon after World War II. There are very few German movie posters from soon after World War II in existence (because of the massive paper shortages in Germany during World War II), and most of those few are in museums. Austria re-released this movie in 1947 and we assume this German re-release poster is from the same general time (the first release German posters have different art and distributors). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss at the top and bottom crossfolds, with some tiny creases and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the other folds. It had a few tiny bits of paper loss in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Any talented restorer could touch up the unrestored areas without re-backing the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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