''Love, Girls and Soldiers'' (German: ''Liebe, Mädchen und Soldaten'') is a 1958 Austrian

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directed by

Franz Antel Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the ...

and starring

Renate Holm Renate Holm (10 August 1931 – 21 April 2022) was a German-Austrian film actress and operatic soprano. She worked as a dentists' assistant and took private singing lessons, resulting in performances in musical films and schlager. She made her ...

Willy Hagara Willy Hagara (4 June 1927 – 15 May 2015) was an Austrian schlager pop singer and actor. Born in Vienna, he worked for the Austrian postal service before winning a talent competition in the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1946. Credited at the time a ...

and

Carla Hagen Carla Hagen (11 September 1927 – 27 January 2020) was a German film and television actress. Hagen died in Hamburg on 27 January 2020, at the age of 92. Selected filmography * ''Professor Nachtfalter'' (1951) * ''The Happy Village'' (1955) * ' ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.175 The film's sets were designed by the

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Sepp Rothaur. It was shot using

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. It was distributed by the prominent West German company

Gloria Film Gloria Film was a West German film production and distribution company. It was established in 1949 by Ilse Kubaschewski. An earlier, unconnected company of the same name had existed during the silent era in Germany, and had been absorbed into ...

Cast

as Steffi Gruber - Sängerin *

as Edi Zaremba - Sänger u. Rekrut *

as Anuschka *

Franz Muxeneder Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 - 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987. Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series ''The White Hor ...

as Alois Krumstiel - Rekrut * Walter Müller as Oberleutnant Bobby von Riedhoff * Rolf Olsen as Max Feierabend - Feldwebel *

Loni Heuser Loni Heuser (January 22, 1908 in Düsseldorf – March 6, 1999 in Berlin) was a German film actress. Selected filmography * ''Liebe in Uniform'' (1932) * '' The Hour of Temptation'' (1936) - Barsängerin * ''Abenteuer im Grandhotel'' (1943) - He ...

as Gisela von Siebenstern, seine Frau *

Hubert von Meyerinck Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858� ...

as Major von Siebenstern *

Helga Martin Helga Martin (real name ''Helga Dümler''; 1940–1999) was a German film actress. Life At the age of 16, she played in German movies for the first time. She impersonated "Frieda" in the movie '' My Aunt, Your Aunt''. She became known at the side ...

as Mimi Holzer - die Tochter *

Hans Olden Hans Olden (1892–1975) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Olden appeared in more than eighty films during his career, mostly in Austria but occasionally also in Germany. He was a supporter of the Austrian Nazi Party, his interest in Nazism pr ...

as Major Holzer - Regimentskommandant *

Willy Millowitsch Willy Millowitsch (, ; 8 January 1909 – 20 September 1999) was a German stage and TV actor and the director of the ''Volkstheater Millowitsch'' in Cologne. Early life Millowitsch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province. His parents were Peter ...

as Fritz, Feldwebel *

C.W. Fernbach C.W. Fernbach (1915–1967) was an Austrian actor. He was married to the actress Dany Sigel. Selected filmography * ''The Immortal Face'' (1947) * ''Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love'' (1955) * ''Espionage'' (1955) * '' The Congress Dances'' (19 ...

as Ferdy Wimmer - Sekretär *

Ilse Peternell Ilse Peternell (2 December 1928 – 30 April 2011) was an Austrian actress who appeared in more than forty films during her career. During the 1940s and 1950 she played female leads in films such as '' Winter Melody'' (1947). She gradually switch ...

as Stubenmädchen *

Raoul Retzer Raoul Retzer (1919–1974) was an Austrian actor. Retzer was a prolific film actor appearing in more than a hundred and forty productions between 1952 and 1975 generally in small or supporting roles. He appeared in the 1955 film ''The Last Ten Day ...

as Kolomann, Rekturt *

Thomas Hörbiger Thomas Hörbiger (1931–2011) was a German film actor and lyricist. He was the son of the actor Paul Hörbiger. His daughter is the actress Mavie Hörbiger. Hörbiger co-wrote Austria's winning entry at the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest, which wa ...

as Hanusch, Rekrut *

Fritz Imhoff Fritz Imhoff, real name: Friedrich Arnold Heinrich Jeschke (January 6, 1891, Alsergrund February 24, 1961, Wieden) was an Austrian actor. He was a brother of the Wienerlied composer (18901962). Selected filmography * '' Daughter of the Regi ...

as Schöberl, Empfangschef

References

Bibliography

* Robert von Dassanowsky. ''Austrian Cinema: A History''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

* 1958 films 1958 musical comedy films Austrian musical comedy films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Franz Antel Military humor in film Films set in the 1900s Gloria Film films 1950s historical comedy films Austrian historical comedy films 1950s historical musical films Austrian historical musical films {{musical-comedy-film-stub