''A Thousand Melodies'' (german: Tausend Melodien) is a 1956 West German

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directed by Hans Deppe and starring

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, Gardy Granass and

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.Koepnick p. 318 The film was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin with sets designed by the

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and

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Cast

as Martin Hoff * Gardy Granass as Barbara Hoff *

as Thomas Hoff * Bibi Johns as Irina Servi *

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as Tante Dele * Paul Henckels as Pasedack, Oberbuchhalter *

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as Mutter Hoff * Ernst Waldow as Ernst Lauterbach *

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as Elisabeth Lauterbach *

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as Felix Riemann *

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as Albert Förster * Ralf Wolter as Hugo Pähler * Herbert Hübner as Hagebutt * Erich Fiedler as Konzertagent Heimroth *

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as Schnauf *

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as Sänger *

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* Heinz Petruo

References

Bibliography

Lutz Peter Koepnick. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present''. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

External links

* 1956 films West German films German musical films 1956 musical films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Hans Deppe Films about music and musicians Films shot at Tempelhof Studios 1950s German films {{musical-film-stub