''Professor Nachtfalter'' is a 1951 West German

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directed by

Rolf Meyer Rolf Meyer (12 November 1910 – 3 February 1963) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. Selected filmography Screenwriter * ''Victoria'' (1935) * ''Augustus the Strong'' (1936) * '' Escapade'' (1936) * '' Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) ...

and starring

Johannes Heesters Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stag ...

, Jeanette Schultze and

Maria Litto Maria Litto (1919–1996) was a German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress. In 1970, she pioneered dance programming on German television. Early life Born in Ovenhausen, Höxter, on 9 September 1919, Litto attended the town's primary and ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.191 The film's sets were designed by the art director

Franz Schroedter Franz Schroedter (9 May 1897 – 14 November 1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.212 Selected filmography * '' The Black Count'' (1920) * '' The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921) * '' The New Paradise'' (1921) * '' The Queen of Whitechap ...

. The film was made at the Bendestorf Studios and partly shot on location at Lake Constance. The film's sets were designed by the art director

. It cost around 900,000

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s to make.

Synopsis

The male

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at a girls boarding school is far too popular with his female students, leading to his aunt, the

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, ordering him to get married. While in the city he gets entangled with a

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singer, who then enrolls at the school pretending to be a student.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1951 films West German films German comedy films 1951 comedy films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Rolf Meyer German black-and-white films 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub