''The Gypsy Baron'' (german: Zigeunerbaron) is a 1935 German
operetta film
Operetta films (German: Operettenfilm) are a genre of musical films associated with, but not exclusive to, German language cinema. The genre began in the late 1920s, but its roots stretch back into the tradition of nineteenth century Viennese ope ...
directed by
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl (10 May 1899 – 29 August 1978) was an Austrian film director.
Life
Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexande ...
and starring
Anton Walbrook
Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 18969 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his ...
,
Hansi Knoteck
Johanna Knoteck, known as Hansi Knoteck (2 March 1914 – 23 February 2014), was an Austrian film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Count Woronzeff'' (1934)
* '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934)
* '' The Gypsy Baron'' (1935)
* ''The Saint and Her F ...
and
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950.
Early life
Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...
. It is an adaptation of the 1885 operetta ''
The Gypsy Baron
''The Gypsy Baron'' () is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II which premiered at the Theater an der Wien on 24 October 1885. Its German libretto by Ignaz Schnitzer is based on the unpublished 1883 story ''Saffi'' by Mór Jókai. Jokai ...
''.
[Goble p. 446] It was made at the
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...
of
UFA
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in
Berlin
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. 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 ...
Werner Schlichting
Werner Schlichting (1904–1996) was a German art director who worked on over a hundred films during a lengthy career. He worked on a number of Austrian films including '' The Congress Dances'' and ''The Last Ten Days'' (1955).Fritsche p.253
Sele ...
. It was shot
on location in
Brandenburg
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and the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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.A separate French-language version,''
Le baron tzigane'' was also produced.
Main cast
*
Anton Walbrook
Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 18969 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his ...
as Sandor Barinkay
*
Hansi Knoteck
Johanna Knoteck, known as Hansi Knoteck (2 March 1914 – 23 February 2014), was an Austrian film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Count Woronzeff'' (1934)
* '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934)
* '' The Gypsy Baron'' (1935)
* ''The Saint and Her F ...
as Saffi
*
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950.
Early life
Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...
as Koloman Zsupan
*
Gina Falckenberg
Gina Falckenberg (14 September 1907 – 12 February 1996) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in 22 films during her career, including '' Anime in tumult'' (1942). Falckenberg was also a writer and worked on several screenplays. She ...
as Arsena Zsupan, seine Tochter
*
Edwin Jürgensen
Edwin Max Eduard Jürgensen (24 May 1898 – 1 April 1947) was a German actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1930 to 1944.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1898 births
1947 deaths
German male film actors ...
as Homonay
*
Rudolf Platte
Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte (12 February 1904 – 18 December 1984) was a German actor.
Biography
Born in Hörde, Westphalia (today part of Dortmund) the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left scho ...
as Ernö
*
Josef Sieber
Josef Sieber (28 April 1900 – 3 December 1962) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Pappi'' (1934)
* ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935)
* ''Joan of Arc'' (1935)
* ''The Gypsy Baron'' (1935)
* ''The Last Four on Santa Cruz'' (193 ...
as Pali
*
Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* '' The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* ''The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) ...
as Czipra
* as Junge
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1935 films
Operetta films
1935 musical comedy films
German musical comedy films
Films of Nazi Germany
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Karl Hartl
UFA GmbH films
1930s historical comedy films
German historical comedy films
Films based on operettas
Films set in Hungary
Films set in Romania
German multilingual films
Films about Romani people
German black-and-white films
1935 multilingual films
1930s historical musical films
German historical musical films
1930s German films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
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