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Operetta films (German: Operettenfilm) are a genre of musical films associated with, but not exclusive to, German language cinema. The genre began in the late 1920s, but its roots stretch back into the tradition of nineteenth century Viennese operettas.
Although some silent films had based their plots on stage operettas, the genre was largely a result of the switch from silent to sound films. The first all-talking operetta was The Desert Song (1929). This operetta had been filmed late in 1928 and was released early in 1929. The 1929 film Melody of the Heart, made by the German studio UFA, is credited as being the first all-talking "operetta film" made in Europe. It had been intended as a silent film, but the dramatic arrival of sound forced its production to be switched. Its combination of music and dancing proved to be a successful formula, and it was followed by many similar films.
During the 1930s the trend spread to Britain, where a number of Operetta films were made (often in co-productions with German or Austrian studios), France and the United States. Many German émigré film-makers following the Nazi rise to power in 1933 were able to find work in other countries because of their experience in the genre. In the United States, a popular run of Operetta films were made starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. In Britain the 1934 Richard Tauber film Blossom Time was a major hit, spawning a number of imitations.




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Bibliography


Hardt, Usula (1996). 'From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books.
Phillips, Alastair (2004). City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris, 1929–1939. Amsterdam University Press.




Further reading


Richards, Jeffrey, ed. (1998). The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929–1939'. I.B. Tauris & Co.
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Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 German 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 Marie Geistinger
Dora Komar 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
Ferdinand Mayerhofer as Dr. Molzer, lawyer
Gisa Wurm 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




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Bibliography


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




External links


Operetta at IMDb
Operette Full movie at the Deutsche Filmothek

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