''Heartbroken on the Moselle'' (german: Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer) is a 1953 West German

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film directed by

Kurt Hoffmann Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ' ...

and starring Will Quadflieg,

Elisabeth Müller Elisabeth Müller (18 July 1926 – 11 December 2006) was a Swiss actress. Filmography References External links * 1926 births 2006 deaths Swiss film actresses 20th-century Swiss actresses Actors from Basel-Stadt {{Switzerlan ...

, and

Oliver Grimm Oliver Grimm (born 16 April 1969) is a Swiss gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. References 1969 births Living people Swiss male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland Gymnasts at the 1992 ...

. It was based on a 1932 novella by Rudolf G. Binding. It was shot at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fir ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

with outdoor film taking place in Bayreuth in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

and at various locations in the

Rhineland The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section. Term Historically, the Rhinelands ...

. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudi Remp.

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* 1953 films West German films German romantic comedy films 1953 romantic comedy films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Kurt Hoffmann German black-and-white films Films shot at Bavaria Studios 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub