Operetta (film)
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Directed by | Willi Forst |
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Cinematography | Hans Schneeberger |
Edited by | Hans Wolff |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
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Release date | 20 December 1940 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Nazi Germany |
Language | German |
Budget | 2,100,000 RM (equivalent to €8,587,906 in 2017) |
Box office | 5,000,000 RM (equivalent to €20,447,395 in 2017) |
Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 German musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Maria Holst and Dora Komar. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It is the first film in director Willi Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" followed by Vienna Blood (1942) and Viennese Girls (1945). The film portrays the life of Franz Jauner (1832–1900), a leading musical figure in the city.[1] It is both an operetta film and a Wiener Film.
Cast[]
- Willi Forst as Franz Jauner
- Maria Holst as Marie Geistinger
- Dora Komar as Emmi Krall, Jauner's wife
- Paul Hörbiger as Alexander Girardi
- Leo Slezak as Franz von Suppé
- as Johann Strauss II
- Curd Jürgens as Karl Millöcker
- Siegfried Breuer as Fürst Hohenburg
- Gustav Waldau as Ferdinand, Emmi's teacher
- Theodor Danegger as Tundler
- Trude Marlen as Antonie Link
- as Hans Makart
- Alfred Neugebauer as Count Esterhazy
- Heinz Woester as Prof. Dr. Eichgraber
- as Dr. Molzer, lawyer
- Gisa Wurm as Frau Bramezberger
- as theatre director in Krems
- as tenor Czika
- Klaus Pohl
- Louis Soldan
References[]
- ^ Hake p. 163
Bibliography[]
- Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
External links[]
Categories:
- German-language films
- 1940 films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German historical musical films
- 1940s historical musical films
- Operetta films
- Films set in Vienna
- Films set in the 19th century
- Films directed by Willi Forst
- Austrian films
- Austrian historical musical films
- German black-and-white films
- 1940s German film stubs
- Historical musical film stubs