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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. 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.
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 IMDb

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• Swelling Melodies
• Die Fledermaus
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• List of films set in Vienna
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• E. W. Fiedler
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• Richard Genée
• Hans Klering