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Zarah Leander - Ich steh' im Regen, 1937

Zarah LEANDER mit Ufaton-Orchester Leitung: Lothar Brühne Ich steh' im Regen (I'm Waiting In The Rain) Musik u. Text: Ralph Benatzky from Ufa-Tonfilm "Zu neuen Ufern" (To New Frontiers), Odeon 1937 (Germany) NOTE: In that 1937 melodramatic movie - which was made in Third Reich by a German --Danish director, Detlef Sierck (aka Douglas Sirk, b.1897 -- d.1987 best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas, in the 1950s) - Zarah Leander plays a singer Gloria Vane who has a resounding success at the Adelphi Theater in London, 1846. While she throws a brilliant party, her lover, Sir Albert Finsbury, an army commanding officer, prepares to leave England for Australia, leading one of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's regiments. But Finsbury is also a compulsive gambler and, being unable to repay his debts, he commits a fraud that could cost him his career. Out of love for Albert, Gloria claims responsibility for his crime and his sentenced to penal labor in a camp in Australia, Paramatta. She is "saved" by good-natured farmer Henry Hoyer who chooses her in a wedding market. But Gloria is not made for farming and soon realizes that she can't stand her new life. Zarah's moving song "Ich steh' im Regen" -- composed by Ralph Benatzky, who was one of the most sophisticated composers of that time in Germany -- truly, belongs to one of the most outstanding German songs in history and it's disquieting beauty still does not loose its power. The release of that "anglophyllic" movie "Zu neuen Ufern" (To New Borders; also translated as the "new Frontiers") was part of a political tactics of German propaganda, to gain for the nazi Germany the liking of British society, in Third Reich's attempts to build a powerful Anglo-Teutonic military alliance in Europe, in late 1930s. These plans - based upon the acceptance for that Anglo-phillic Hitler's strategy, openly manifested by vast circles of English aristocracy - eventually failed, when confronted with Winston Churchill's unequivocal antypathy for nazism.