The Marriage of Figaro (film)
| The Marriage of Figaro | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Georg Wildhagen |
| Produced by | Walter Lehmann |
| Written by |
Pierre Beaumarchais (play) Lorenzo da Ponte (libretto) Georg Wildhagen |
| Starring |
Angelika Hauff Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender Sabine Peters Elsa Wagner |
| Cinematography |
Eugen Klagemann Karl Plintzner |
| Edited by | Hildegard Tegener |
Production company |
DEFA |
| Distributed by | Progress Film |
Release dates | 25 November 1949 |
Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | East Germany |
| Language | German |
The Marriage of Figaro (German:Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters.[1] It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state studio of East Germany. It sold 5,479,427 tickets.[2]
Cast
- Angelika Hauff as Susanna
- Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro
- Sabine Peters as Gräfin Rosine
- Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Graf Almaviva
- Elsa Wagner as Marcellina
- Victor Janson as Dr. Bartolo
- Alfred Balthoff as Basilio
- Franz Weber as Don Curzio
- Ernst Legal as Antonio
- Willi Puhlmann as Cherubino
- Katharina Mayberg as Barbarina
- Theodor Vogeler as Schreiber
References
- ↑ Davidson & Hake p.238
- ↑ List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
Bibliography
- Davidson, John E. & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.