The Bird Seller (1953 film)

The Bird Seller
Directed by	Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Written by	Curt J. Braun Ludwig Held (libretto) Moritz West (libretto)
Produced by	Kurt Ulrich Heinz Willeg
Starring	Ilse Werner Wolf Albach-Retty Eva Probst
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Friedel Buckow
Music by	Bert Grund Carl Zeller (operetta)
Production company	Berolina Film
Distributed by	Allianz Filmverleih
Release date	17 September 1953 (1953-09-17)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Bird Seller (German: Der Vogelhändler) is a 1953 West German musical film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Ilse Werner, Wolf Albach-Retty and Eva Probst.

An operetta film, it is one of several adaptations of the operetta The Bird Seller by Carl Zeller.

The film was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and shot in Agfacolor. The sets were designed by the art director Felix Smetana.

Cast

• Ilse Werner as Fürstin Marie-Louise
• Wolf Albach-Retty as Fürst
• Eva Probst as Christel
• Gerhard Riedmann as Adam, Vogelhändler
• Sybil Werden as Jeanine, Tänzerin
• Günther Lüders as Weps
• Erni Mangold as Ernestine
• Siegfried Breuer as Marquis de Tréville
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Johann, Diener
• Rudolf Reiff as Oberförster

See also

• The Bird Seller (1935)
• Roses in Tyrol (1940)
• Die Christel von der Post (1956)
• The Bird Seller (1962)

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• The Bird Seller at IMDb