If ever a real-life drama screamed to be made into a great musical, it's the story of the spectacular rise and tragic fall of the Comedian Harmonists. This, unfortunately, is not that musical. The Comedian Harmonists -- a six-man, close-harmony group founded in
Berlin in the late 1920s -- combined popular German music with jazzy, American syncopation and humor, quickly becoming one of Europe's hottest musical acts. Their overnight success, however, was brief. This terrifically unimaginative treatment of their story opens in 1927, as floundering character
actor and musical arranger Harry Frommermann (Ulrich Noethen) is trying to put together a singing group. A fan o...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
126 mins