Barry Humphries WEIMAR CABARET (The Ruins of Berlin)

Stella Motion Pictures

Because we miss Barry, here is a song originally written by Friedrich Hollander for Marlene Dietrich in the feature 'A Foreign Affair', now sung by Barry Humphries and Meow Meow played by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. But first, a little tale from the raconteur extraordinaire himself... (video by Philippe Charluet) #barryhumphries #meowmeow #ACO #weimar  YouTube tally: 1.2k views

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00:01Soon after the end of the Second World War, an American film was shot in Berlin called

00:06A Foreign Affair. It starred Malena Dietrich, its music was by Friedrich Hollander and

00:14it was directed by Billy Wilder, three Berliners who had been forced into exile and new careers

00:22in California by the accession of Hitler. I knew Billy Wilder in his later years and he

00:30had a vivid reminiscence of his student days in Berlin when he lived in some poverty in

00:38a tenement building with only one lavatory on each floor. Constant flushing of this facility

00:48kept him awake all night. He could only get to sleep by imagining that he was in a tropical

00:56forest listening to the melodious splashing of a waterfall. Years later as a big time Hollywood

01:09director after the immense success of Some Like It Hot, the greatest of all screen comedies,

01:17he was living at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in a luxurious garden suite. Alas, his sleep

01:26every night was disturbed by the sound of a fountain in the garden beyond his terrace. He could only

01:42drop off by imagining that he was in a run-down Berlin apartment block overhearing the sound of a constantly

01:49flushing toilet. Hollander wrote several great songs for Malena in this movie as he had done for her

02:05first film, The Blue Angel. The most memorable was what will now be our final offerings afternoon, the ruins of Berlin. I'm joined by

02:12Meow Meow Meow. And we're going to perform it in German and the three languages of the occupying forces.

02:19In the three languages of the occupying forces.

02:26And the three languages of the occupying forces.

02:33And the three languages of the occupying forces.

02:41.

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02:58Les ruines de Valens

03:00Les amonts frères

03:02qui ont été consensés

03:04L'article de la Ferdinand

03:06La Chanson de l'Ovoa

03:08La Vesta

03:12Avis the ruins

03:14of the rain

03:16Trees are in bloom

03:18They have never been

03:20Sometimes at night

03:22You'll hear an audio sorrow

03:24Of the future and of the tomorrow

03:26You read of lies at last

03:28There weren't a time

03:30The struggles of the past

03:32A plenty spring is to begin

03:34One of the ruins

03:36of Berlin

03:40In den Ruinen

03:42von Berlin

03:44Feiern die Blumen

03:46wieder an zu blöd

03:48Und in der Nacht

03:50spürst du von allen Seiten

03:52von allen Seiten

03:54In den Duft

03:56as we have signed

04:00Dans de Ere

04:02vieren

04:04de Berlin

04:06Les amonts frères

04:08aprières et tauschen nacht

04:10Aprières springens

04:12to begin

04:14One of the ruins

04:16of Berlin

04:18Auction

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04:56remonts de

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