The Bird Seller (1953 film)
| The Bird Seller | |
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| German | Der Vogelhändler |
| 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 | |
| Distributed by | Allianz Filmverleih |
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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.[1]
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
[edit]- Ilse Werner as Fürstin Marie-Louise
- Wolf Albach-Retty as Fürst
- Eva Probst as Christel
- Gerhard Riedmann as Adam
- Sybil Werden as Jeanine
- Günther Lüders as Weps
- Erni Mangold as Ernestine
- Siegfried Breuer as Marquis de Tréville
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Johann
- Rudolf Reiff as Chief forester
See also
[edit]- The Bird Seller (1935)
- Roses in Tyrol (1940)
- Die Christel von der Post (1956)
- The Bird Seller (1962)
References
[edit]- ^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 382. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
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