We Make Music

{{Infobox film

|name = We Make Music

|image = Wir machen Musik Logo 001.svg

|caption = Wir machen Musik (We make music); Header of the movie from 1942

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Wir machen Musik}}

|director = Helmut Käutner

|writer = {{ubl|Manfried Rössner (play)|Hans Effenberger|Erich Ebermayer|Helmut Käutner}}

|starring = {{ubl|Ilse Werner|Viktor de Kowa|Edith Oß|Grethe Weiser}}

|music = {{ubl|Peter Igelhoff|Adolf Steimel}}

|cinematography = Jan Roth

|editing = Helmuth Schönnenbeck

|studio = Terra Film

|distributor = Deutsche Filmvertriebs

|released = {{Film date|1942|10|08|df=yes}}

|runtime = 95 minutes

|country = Germany

|language = German

}}

We Make Music ({{langx|de|Wir machen Musik}}) is a 1942 German musical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner, starring Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa and Edith Oß.{{cite book|last=Hake|first=Sabine|title=Popular Cinema of the Third Reich|publisher=University of Texas Press|place=Austin, TX|year=2001|page=58|doi=10.7560/734579|isbn=0292734581|jstor=10.7560/734579}} It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Mellin and Gerhard Ladner.

Plot

It is a revue film, loosely based on the stage work Karl III. und Anna von Österreich by Manfried Rössner. Karl Zimmermann, a composer whose idols are Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers, dreams of being successful with his own opera and composes popular music for fun, but does not try to publish it. His wife, Anni Pichler is a popular singer and secretly sells his popular songs so that they can make a living. When he finally completes his opera and it is rejected by the public, he realizes that his true talent is composing popular music and not dishonorable.