The Last Waltz (German: Der letzte Walzer) is a 1953 West German musical romance film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, and starring Eva Bartok, Curd Jürgens, and O. E. Hasse.[1] It is an operetta film, based on the 1920 work The Last Waltz by Oscar Straus. It was one of several film adaptations of the operetta. It was shot partly at the Wiesbaden Studios in Hesse and on location in the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin.
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| German | Der letzte Walzer |
| Directed by | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
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| Cinematography | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| Edited by | Margot von Schlieffen |
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| Distributed by | Neue Filmverleih |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
Cast
edit- Eva Bartok as Baronesse Vera Opalinski
- Curd Jürgens as Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
- O. E. Hasse as Prinz Paul
- Christl Mardayn as Baronin Opalinski
- Siegfried Breuer as General Krasinski
- Rudolf Schündler as Jerome Thibaut
- Hermann Pfeiffer
- Erni Mangold
- Erica Beer
- Anneliese Kaplan as Babuschka Opalinski
- Ferdinand Anton
- Arno Ebert
- Hans Elwenspoek
- Jaspar von Oertzen
- Irene Mann as dancer
- Vera Schwarz as dancer
- Werner Beer as dancer
See also
edit- The Last Waltz (1927)
- The Last Waltz (1934)
- The Last Waltz (UK, 1936)
- The Last Waltz (France, 1936)
References
edit- ^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 33. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
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