The Last Waltz (1953 film)

The Last Waltz
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Directed by	Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Produced by	Otto Lehmann Günther Stapenhorst
Written by	Julius Brammer Curt J. Braun Alfred Grünwald
Starring	Eva Bartok Curd Jürgens O. E. Hasse
Music by	Oscar Straus (operetta) Bruno Uher
Cinematography	Friedl Behn-Grund
Edited by	Margot von Schlieffen
Production company	Carlton-Film Eichberg-Film
Distributed by	Neue Filmverleih
Release dates	21 August 1953 (1953-08-21)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Last Waltz (German: Der letzte Walzer) is a 1953 West German musical romance film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, and starring Eva Bartok, Curd Jürgens, and O. E. Hasse. It is an operetta film, based on the 1920 work The Last Waltz by Oscar Straus. It was one of several film adaptations of the operetta. It was shot partly at the Wiesbaden Studios in Hesse and on location in the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin.

Cast

• Eva Bartok as Baronesse Vera Opalinski
• Curd Jürgens as Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
• O. E. Hasse as Prinz Paul
• Christl Mardayn as Baronin Opalinski
• Siegfried Breuer as General Krasinski
• Rudolf Schündler as Jerome Thibaut
• Hermann Pfeiffer
• Erni Mangold
• Erica Beer
• Anneliese Kaplan as Babuschka Opalinski
• Ferdinand Anton
• Arno Ebert
• Hans Elwenspoek
• Jaspar von Oertzen
• Irene Mann as dancer
• Vera Schwarz as dancer
• Werner Beer as dancer

See also

• The Last Waltz (1927)
• The Last Waltz (1934)
• The Last Waltz (UK, 1936)
• The Last Waltz (France, 1936)

External links

• The Last Waltz at IMDb