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Operetta (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Operetta' 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 (18321900), a leading musical figure in the city.Hake p. 163 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 Hrbiger as Alexander Girardi
* Leo Slezak as Franz von Supp
* Edmund Schellhammer as Johann Strauss II
* Curd Jrgens as Karl Millcker
* Siegfried Breuer as Frst Hohenburg
* Gustav Waldau as Ferdinand, Emmi's teacher
* Theodor Danegger as Tundler
* Trude Marlen as Antonie Link
* Viktor Heim as Hans Makart
* Alfred Neugebauer as Count Esterhazy
* Heinz Woester as Prof. Dr. Eichgraber
* as Dr. Molzer, lawyer
* Gisa Wurm as Frau Bramezberger
* Wilhelm Leicht as theatre director in Krems
* Fred Hlgerth as tenor Czika
* Lia Bayer
* Franz Borsos
* Lorenz Corvinus
* Hans Fetscherin
* Pepi Glckner-Kramer
* Hansi Koller
* Hill Larsen
* Klaus Pohl
* Oskar Pouch
* Ernst Reitter
* Johannes Roth
* Louis Soldan
* Josef Stiegler
* Agnes Tassopulos
* Oskar Wegrostek
References
Bibliography
* Hake, Sabine. 'Popular Cinema of the Third Reich'. University of Texas Press, 2001.
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