Princess Turandot (film)
| Princess Turandot | |
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| Directed by | Gerhard Lamprecht |
| Written by | Thea von Harbou |
| Produced by | Günther Stapenhorst |
| Starring | Käthe von Nagy Willy Fritsch |
| Cinematography | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| Edited by | Arnfried Heyne |
| Music by | Franz Doelle |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 30 November 1934 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Princess Turandot (German: Prinzessin Turandot) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Käthe von Nagy and Willy Fritsch.[1] A separate French-language version Turandot, Princess of China was also released.
The script, by Thea von Harbou,[2] includes elements of Puccini's opera Turandot and Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 1762 play Turandot. The film sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The music was by Franz Doelle with song lyrics by Bruno Balz and C. Amberg (including the opening Turandot, bezaubernde Turandot - 'enchanting Turandot'),[3] and the sound engineer was Dr. Fritz Seidel.
Cast
- Willi Schaeffers as The Emperor
- Leopoldine Konstantin as The Empress
- Käthe von Nagy as Princess Turandot
- Inge List as Mian Li
- Willy Fritsch as Kalaf, the bird-dealer
- Paul Kemp as Willibald
- Aribert Wäscher as The Judge
- Paul Heidemann as Prince of Samarkand
- Gerhard Dammann as Executioner
- Ernst Behmer as The fruit dealer
- Edlef Schauer as The barber's clerk
- Angelo Ferrari
- Rudolf Biebrach
- Gaston Briese
- Alexander Engel
- Willi Grill
- Karl Hannemann
- Karl Hellmer
- Eduard Kandl
- Werner Kepich
- Bertold Reissig
- Hans Sternberg
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.336
- ^ A number of websites mistakenly credit the script to F. P. (Felix Paul) Greve, later known in Canada as Frederick Philip Grove, who published a German translation of One Thousand and One Nights in 1909. (Source: Zur Kulturgeschichte der Märchen 17. Mai 2015, p. 7n.) These sources are apparently confusing '1001 Nights' with the similarly-titled collection Les Mille et un jours ('1001 Days') (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix, from which the story of Turandot is taken.
- ^ Turandot, bezaubernde Turandot recorded by Herbert Ernst Groh in 1935. Youtube. Accessed 13 November 2016.
Bibliography
- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- Complete film of Prinzessin Turandot on YouTube
- Princess Turandot at IMDb
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- 1930s comedy films
- German comedy films
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- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German-language films
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- German multilingual films
- Films based on works by Friedrich Schiller
- Films with screenplays by Thea von Harbou
- UFA films
- 1930s German film stubs
- German black-and-white films