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Operetta (film)

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Operetta
Directed byWilli Forst
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHans Schneeberger
Edited byHans Wolff
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Release date
  • 20 December 1940 (1940-12-20)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryNazi Germany
LanguageGerman
Budget2,100,000 RM (equivalent to €9,294,900 in 2021)
Box office5,000,000 RM (equivalent to €22,130,715 in 2021)

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

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References

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  1. ^ Hake p. 163

Bibliography

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  • Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
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