Cinema
Meet Me on Cassiopeia
Mød mig på Cassiopeia
Torben Anton Svendsen · 1951
Synopsis
The composer John Berger can no longer finish the operetta that is soon to be staged, and his marriage is wavering: his wife Irene, who is to play the lead, looks with too much interest at Harry, an air force lieutenant, and the theatre is threatened with closure. In despair, John enters a museum where an aunt of Harry's shows him the statue of Polyhymnia, muse of music. He calls on her for help; the muse takes pity on him and comes down to earth, where the melodies return, but where her presence creates new complications.
Context
Written by Fleming Lynge and Børge Müller and produced by Erik Balling for Nordisk, the film was released on 4 October 1951. It borrows from two foreign models, an American musical comedy of 1947 with Rita Hayworth and Reinhold Schünzel's Amphitryon; it is a backstage comedy, built on the intrigues surrounding the staging of an operetta. Kai Normann Andersen wrote the music, of which two songs are still covered today.
Who it is for
About an hour and forty minutes, in Danish, with songs. The visitor from the sky is a muse of Olympus, not the inhabitant of a star, and it helps to know this.
Prizes and reception
A great popular success; Bodil Kjer received the Bodil Award for best actress for the role of the muse. The best known of its director's films.
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