Operetta (film)

For the genre, see Operetta film.

Operetta
Directed by	Willi Forst
Produced by	Karl Hartl Willi Forst
Written by	Axel Eggebrecht Willi Forst
Starring	Willi Forst Maria Holst Dora Komar Paul Hörbiger
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger
Edited by	Hans Wolff
Production company	Wien-Film
Release dates	20 December 1940
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Maria Holst and Dora Komar. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It is the first film in director Willi Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" followed by Vienna Blood (1942) and Viennese Girls (1945). The film portrays the life of Franz Jauner (1832–1900), a leading musical figure in the city. It is both an operetta film and a Wiener Film.

Cast

• Willi Forst as Franz Jauner
• Maria Holst as de
• de as Emmi Krall, Jauner's wife
• Paul Hörbiger as Alexander Girardi
• Leo Slezak as Franz von Suppé
• Edmund Schellhammer as Johann Strauss II
• Curd Jürgens as Karl Millöcker
• Siegfried Breuer as Fürst Hohenburg
• Gustav Waldau as Ferdinand, Emmi's teacher
• Theodor Danegger as Tundler
• Trude Marlen as Antonie Link
• Viktor Heim as Hans Makart
• Alfred Neugebauer as Count Esterhazy
• Heinz Woester as Prof. Dr. Eichgraber
• de as Dr. Molzer, lawyer
• de as Frau Bramezberger
• Wilhelm Leicht as theatre director in Krems
• Fred Hülgerth as tenor Czika
• Lia Bayer
• Franz Borsos
• Lorenz Corvinus
• Hans Fetscherin
• Pepi Glöckner-Kramer
• Hansi Koller
• Hill Larsen
• Klaus Pohl
• Oskar Pouché
• Ernst Reitter
• Johannes Roth
• Louis Soldan
• Josef Stiegler
• Agnes Tassopulos
• Oskar Wegrostek

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

• Operetta at IMDb