Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami (1939)
Musique de Théo Mackeben, Paroles françaises de Louis Poterat, paroles allemandes de Fritz Beckmann
par Eva Busch (1909-2001)
(Le couple Busch s'enfuit d'Allemagne à l'arrivée d'Hitler en 1933 et s'installe à Paris. Elle chante parfois sauf "où Hitler était". Déportée en 1941. Goebbels adorait ses chansons, mais les faisait tourner à la radio sous un autre nom) 
Max Raabe
Max Raabe
Tino Rossi, 1941
Commentaire emprunté (Youtube) 
Tino Rossi, Orchestre sous la dir. de Jacques Metehen - Bel ami (Theo Mackeben / Louis Poterat) (du Willy Frost film "Bel ami"), Columbia 1941
This film was originally made in UFA-Berlin 1939 and was released in Paris under the German occupation, in 1941. The title song immediately became a grand "schlager" in Paris of 1941 - it was sung and recorded by many French artists, including Eva Busch.
French film critics, who in large number collaborated with the press controlled by the Nazis - could find no words to express their enthusiasm for the "artistical quality" of a Nazi-German production. "Bubblier than champagne and lighter than the air of Paris" - was the verdict of French critics on Willy Forst, the co-scenarist, director and star of "Bel Ami".
"In the congenial role of Maupassant's irresistible womaniser, who uses his charm to get to the top - they wrote - the Viennese Forst manages to resurrect the frivolous light-heartedness of a waltzing never-never land in the shape of turn-of-the-century Paris".
In Eastern Europe this Nazi propaganda movie product - in Prague or in Warsaw - was shown merely in the cinemas "Nur fuer Deutsche". The underground armies' orders - which were disseminated in thousands of leaflets throughout the occupied cities of Poland - forbade visiting nazi-controlled cinemas and watching their films.
Lucienne Delisle 1939
Willy Forst
Version allemende de 1939