Boccaccio (1936 film)

Boccaccio
Directed by Herbert Maisch
Produced by Max Pfeiffer
Written by Emil Burri
Walter Forster
Starring Albrecht Schoenhals
Gina Falckenberg
Willy Fritsch
Heli Finkenzeller
Music by Franz Doelle
Cinematography Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by Carl Otto Bartning
Production
company
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 31 July 1936 (1936-07-31)
Running time
88 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Boccaccio is a 1936 German musical film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Albrecht Schoenhals, Gina Falckenberg and Willy Fritsch.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte.

Plot

Boccaccio is an operetta that relates how Nazis conceived the Italian Renaissance. The Ferrara’s residents are carried up in a tide of emotion and physical passion. Before long, the town is in chaos.

Cast

References

  1. O'Brien p.47

Bibliography

  • O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Camden House, 2006.

Boccaccio Film

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