Swelling Melodies

Swelling Melodies (German: Rauschende Melodien) is a 1955 East German musical film directed by E.W. Fiedler and starring Erich Arnold, Jarmila Ksírová and Sonja Schöner.^[1] It is an adaptation of the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II and Richard Genée and was part of a tradition of operetta films in German cinema.. It was released in 1955, and sold 4,968,582 tickets.^[2]

It was made by the state-backed DEFA studios. The film's sets were designed by Artur Günther.

Cast

• Erich Arnold as Gabriel von Eisenstein
• Jarmila Ksírová as Rosalinde von Eisenstein
• Sonja Schöner as Adele
• Herbert Kiper as Dr. Falke
• Gerd Frickhöffer as Prinz Orlofsky
• Rolf Weih as Alfred
• Hans Wocke as Gefängnisdirektor Frank
• Joseph Egger as Gefängniswärter Frosch
• Elvira Sternbeck as Ida
• Hans Klering as Dr. Blind
• Hans Alexander as Gefangener
• Günter Beurenmeister as Verehrer
• Kurt Bobeth-Bolander as Bersitz
• Ursula Dücker as Dame
• Christine Fischer as Dame
• Walter Grimm as Herr
• Ernst Paul Hempel as Briefträger
• Hella Jansen as Dame
• Günter Klostermann as Offizier
• Gerhard Lau as Diener
• Anna Lindemann as Dame
• Herbert Mewes-Conti as Verehrer
• Walter Salow as Diener
• Nico Turoff as Diener
• Ernst Ullrich as Gefangener
• Inka Unverzagt as Dame
• Teddy Wulff as Verehrer

References

Bibliography

• Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.

External links

• Swelling Melodies at the Internet Movie Database