''The Land of Smiles'' (german: Das Land des Lächelns) is a 1952
West German
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operetta film
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directed by
Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe (; 12 November 1897 – 23 September 1969) was a German actor and film director.
Filmography
As director
As actor
References
External links
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1897 births
1969 deaths
German male film actors
German television dire ...
and
Erik Ode
Erik Ode (born Fritz Erik Signy Odemar, 6 November 1910 – 19 July 1983) was a German director and actor who was most famous for playing Kommissar ''Herbert Keller'' in the German television drama '' Der Kommissar'' (The Police Inspector). He mar ...
and starring
Mártha Eggerth,
Jan Kiepura
Jan Wiktor Kiepura (May 16, 1902 – August 15, 1966) was a Polish singer (tenor) and actor.
Life and career
Jan Kiepura was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, the son of Miriam (née Neuman), a former professional singer, and Franciszek Kiepura, a b ...
and
Walter Müller. It is an adaptation of the operetta ''
The Land of Smiles
''The Land of Smiles'' (German: ') is a 1929 romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German language libretto was by and Fritz Löhner-Beda. The performance duration is about 100 minutes.
This was one of Lehár's later works, and h ...
'' composed by
Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár ( ; hu, Lehár Ferenc ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe'').
Life ...
which had previously been made into
a 1930 film starring
Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor and film actor.
Early life
Richard Tauber was born in Linz, Austria, to Elisabeth Seifferth (née Denemy), a widow and an actress who played soubrette roles at the local theat ...
.
[Traubner p.249] It was shot at the
Tempelhof Studios
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in
Berlin
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and
on location in
Thailand
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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 ...
s
Willi Herrmann
Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director.
Selected filmography
* '' Madness'' (1919)
* '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919)
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920)
* '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921)
* '' The Mahar ...
, Peter Schlewski and
Heinrich Weidemann
Heinrich Weidemann (1899–1982) was a German art director.Lowe p.179
Selected filmography
* '' The Gambler'' (1938)
* '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941)
* '' Ghost in the Castle'' (1947)
* '' The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949)
* '' Scandal at the ...
.
Cast
*
Mártha Eggerth as Lissy Licht, Sängerin
*
Jan Kiepura
Jan Wiktor Kiepura (May 16, 1902 – August 15, 1966) was a Polish singer (tenor) and actor.
Life and career
Jan Kiepura was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, the son of Miriam (née Neuman), a former professional singer, and Franciszek Kiepura, a b ...
as Sou Bawana Pantschur, Prinz von Javora
*
Walter Müller as Gustl Potter, ein junger Wiener
*
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor.
Life and work
Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ...
as Professor Ferdinand Licht
*
Karin Von Dassel as Mi, Schwester von Prinz Sou
*
Karl Meixner
Karl Meixner (13 February 1903 – 29 December 1976) was an Austrian film actor.
Partial filmography
* '' Frederica'' (1932)
* ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' (1933) - Hofmeister
* '' Hitlerjunge Quex'' (1933) - Wilde
* '' Refugees'' (1933) - Pa ...
as Exzellenz Tschang
*
Ludwig Schmitz
Ludwig Schmitz (January 28, 1884 – June 28, 1954) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including the 1951 comedy '' The Heath Is Green''. He was part of the popular comedy duo Tran and Helle along with ...
as Kato
*
Brigitte Lwowsky as Chrysanthème
References
Bibliography
* Traubner, Richard. ''Operetta: A Theatrical History''. Routledge, 2003.
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1952 films
1952 musical films
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West German films
1950s German-language films
Operetta films
Films based on operettas
Films directed by Hans Deppe
Films directed by Erik Ode
Films set in China
Films set in the 1910s
Remakes of German films
Films scored by Paul Dessau
1950s German films
Films shot in Thailand
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
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