Opera Ball (1956 film)

Opera Ball
Directed by Ernst Marischka
Produced by Karl Ehrlich
Written by Viktor Léon (libretto)
Heinrich von Waldberg (libretto)
Ernst Marischka
Starring Johannes Heesters
Hertha Feiler
Josef Meinrad
Music by Richard Heuberger
Cinematography Bruno Mondi
Edited by Alfred Srp
Production
company
Erma-Film
Distributed by Sascha Film (Austria)
Herzog-Filmverleih (W.Germany)
Release date
30 August 1956
Running time
95 minutes
Country Austria
Language German

Opera Ball (German: Opernball) is a 1956 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Johannes Heesters, Hertha Feiler and Josef Meinrad. Based on the 1898 operetta Der Opernball, it is part of the operetta film tradition. A previous film version had been made in 1939.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. It was shot using Agfacolor.

Cast

References

  1. Waldman p.284

Bibliography

  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
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