Swelling Melodies
Swelling Melodies | |
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Directed by | E.W. Fiedler |
Written by |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | E.W. Fiedler |
Edited by | DEFA |
Music by | Johann Strauss (operetta) |
Distributed by | VEB Progress Film |
Release date | 20 May 1955 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | East Germany |
Language | German |
Swelling Melodies (German: Rauschende Melodien) is a 1955 East German musical film directed by E.W. Fiedler and starring , and .[1] It is an adaptation of the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II and Richard Genée and was part of a tradition of operetta films in German cinema.. It was released in 1955, and sold 4,968,582 tickets.[2]
It was made by the state-backed DEFA studios. The film's sets were designed by Artur Günther.
Cast[]
- as Gabriel von Eisenstein
- as Rosalinde von Eisenstein
- as Adele
- Herbert Kiper as Dr. Falke
- Gerd Frickhöffer as Prinz Orlofsky
- Rolf Weih as Alfred
- as Gefängnisdirektor Frank
- Joseph Egger as Gefängniswärter Frosch
- as Ida
- Hans Klering as Dr. Blind
- as Gefangener
- as Verehrer
- as Bersitz
- as Dame
- as Dame
- as Herr
- as Briefträger
- as Dame
- as Offizier
- as Diener
- as Dame
- as Verehrer
- as Diener
- Nico Turoff as Diener
- as Gefangener
- Inka Unverzagt as Dame
- as Verehrer
References[]
- ^ Liehm & Liehm p.95
- ^ List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
Bibliography[]
- Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.
External links[]
Categories:
- German-language films
- 1955 films
- German historical musical films
- 1950s historical musical films
- East German films
- Operetta films
- Films based on operettas
- Films set in the 1870s
- Films set in Vienna
- 1950s German film stubs
- Historical musical film stubs