The Night Before the Premiere

The Night Before the Premiere
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Helmuth M. Backhaus Hans Bradtke Answald Krüger Maria Matray Adolf Schütz
Produced by	Gyula Trebitsch
Starring	Marika Rökk Theo Lingen Wolfgang Lukschy
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Alice Ludwig
Music by	Lotar Olias Helmut Zacharias
Production company	Real Film
Release date	14 May 1959
Running time	99 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Night Before the Premiere (German: Die Nacht vor der Premiere) is a 1959 West German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Theo Lingen and Wolfgang Lukschy.

It was made by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg.

Cast

• Marika Rökk as Carola Lorm
• Theo Lingen as Karl Schmitt
• Wolfgang Lukschy as Kriminalkommissar Peter Hall
• Peer Schmidt as Heinz Schmitt
• Ursula Grabley as Berta Schmitt
• Erna Sellmer as Rosalia Fascinelli
• Wiebke Paritz as Barbara Lorm
• Fred Raul as Don Alvarez
• Wolfgang Neuss as Gavrilo
• Carl Voscherau as Friedrich Iversen
• Elly Burgmer
• Ruth von Hagen
• Max Walter Sieg
• Benno Gellenbeck
• Oscar Müller
• Lothar Grützner
• Joachim Rake
• Peter Frank
• Manfred Steffen as Joe
• Michael Toost
• Rudolf Fenner as Wirt der Arizona-Bar
• Bruno Vahl-Berg
• Uwe Friedrichsen as Polizist
• Gerda-Maria Jürgens
• Louis Armstrong as Himself
• Danny Barcelona as Himself (drums)
• Peanuts Hucko as Himself (clarinet)
• Billy Kyle as Himself (piano)
• James Young as Himself (trombone)
• Mort Herbert as Himself (bass)
• Billy Mo as Himself
• Helmut Zacharias as Himself

Bibliography

• Lutz Peter Koepnick. The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

External links

• The Night Before the Premiere at IMDb