''Ball at the Savoy'' (german: Ball im Savoy) is a 1955 West German
musical comedy film
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directed by
Paul Martin
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The son o ...
and starring
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Florentine'' (1937)
* ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922
* ''Krambambuli'' ( ...
,
Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born 16 March 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vie ...
, and
Peter W. Staub
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Partial filmography
* ''Mein Traum'' (1940) - Jimmy
* ''Gilberte de Courgenay'' (1941) - Korporal
* ''Emil, mer mues halt rede mitenand'' (1941) - V ...
. Inspired by the 1932 operetta ''
Ball im Savoy'' by
Paul Abraham
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, this film is closer to a
revue
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show than the previous
1935 film adaptation.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Albrecht Becker
Albrecht Becker (14 November 1906 – 22 April 2002) was a German production designer, photographer, and actor who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime for the charge of homosexuality.
Personal life
Born in Thale, Germany, Becker trained as a ...
and
Herbert Kirchhoff
Herbert Kirchhoff (1911–1988) was a German art director.
Selected filmography
* ''Nora's Ark'' (1948)
* '' My Wife's Friends'' (1949)
* '' The Last Night'' (1949)
* ''Second Hand Destiny'' (1949)
* ''Third from the Right'' (1950)
* ''Harbour ...
. It was shot at the
Wandsbek Studios
The Wandsbek Studios are film production and television studios located in Wandsbek, a district of the German city of Hamburg.
The complex was established in 1948 when Real Film, set up the previous year, acquired a site in Wandsbek for constr ...
in Hamburg.
Cast
References
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1955 films
1955 musical comedy films
German musical comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Paul Martin
Films scored by Paul Abraham
Operetta films
Films based on operettas
Remakes of German films
Films shot at Wandsbek Studios
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
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