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The Marriage of Figaro (1949 film)

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The Marriage of Figaro
Directed byGeorg Wildhagen
Written byPierre Beaumarchais (play)
Lorenzo da Ponte (libretto)
Georg Wildhagen
Produced byWalter Lehmann
StarringAngelika Hauff
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
Sabine Peters
Elsa Wagner
CinematographyEugen Klagemann
Karl Plintzner
Edited byHildegard Tegener
Production
company
Distributed byProgress Film
Release date
25 November 1949
Running time
107 minutes
CountryEast Germany
LanguageGerman

The Marriage of Figaro (German: Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters.[1] It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state studio of East Germany. It sold 5,479,427 tickets.[2]

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Bibliography

  • Davidson, John E. & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.