Ave Maria (1936 film)

Ave Maria is a 1936 German musical drama film. It stars Italian opera tenor Beniamino Gigli and German actress Käthe von Nagy.

Ave Maria
Directed by	Johannes Riemann
Screenplay by	Georg C. Klaren Bruno Mondi
Story by	Georg C. Klaren
Produced by	Alberto Giacalone Martin Pichert
Starring	Beniamino Gigli Käthe von Nagy Harald Paulsen Paul Henckels Erna Berger
Cinematography	Bruno Mondi
Edited by	Roger von Norman
Music by	Alois Melichar
Production company	Itala-Film
Distributed by	Neue Deutsch Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release dates	21 August 1936 (1936-08-21) (Germany) 1 October 1936 (1936-10-01) (United States)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Plot

Tino Dossi (Beniamino Gigli), a wealthy, famous, and older opera singer, is grieving over the terrible loss of his wife, a devoted French woman. Each year, he travels to Paris to visit her grave, but this year he is forced to go a concert his manager has arranged. While enjoying the concert, his manager visits a seedy night club and, while drunk, tells a cabaret entertainer, and her lover, that the singer is very unhappy and also wealthy.^[1]

The scheming night club girl known as Chansonnière Claudette (Käthe von Nagy) meets the singer and accompanies him to Naples, pretending to be upset about his wife's demise. The singer and the girl are later engaged, but he discovers her lies and she, now genuinely in love with him, drives away in a car, but is badly injured in a car crash. The singer, now aware of her repentance and true affection for him, takes her for his bride.^[1]