''Bonjour Kathrin'' (or ''Bonjour, Kathrin'') is a 1956 West German
musical film
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directed by
Karl Anton
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Biography
He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. An ...
and starring
Caterina Valente
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,
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and . It is based on the
operetta
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''Die glücklichste Frau der Welt'' by Max Wallner and
Kurt Feltz
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In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and i ...
. It was shot in
Eastmancolor
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Eastmancolor, introduced in 1950, was on ...
at the
Wiesbaden Studios
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in
Hesse
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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
Andrej Andrejew and
Helmut Nentwig
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Selected filmography
* ''You Can No Longer Remain Silent'' (1955)
* ''Bonjour Kathrin (film), Bonjour Kathrin'' (1956)
* ''The Simple Girl'' (1957)
* ''The Big Chance (1957 ...
.
Cast
*
Caterina Valente
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer of Italian ethnicity. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a performer in Europe, Valente ...
as Kathrin
*
Peter Alexander Peter Alexander may refer to:
* Pete Alexander (born Grover Cleveland Alexander; 1887–1950), American baseball player
* Peter Alexander (Shakespearean scholar) (1893–1969), professor of English language and literature at the University of Glasgo ...
as Pierre
* as Silvio
*
Dietmar Schönherr
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as Duval
*
Rudolf Vogel
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as Fogar
*
Helen Vita
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as Denise
*
Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
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In 1967, he hosted Miss G ...
as Columbus
*
Rolf Olsen as Lebaudi
*Sabine Hahn as Therese
*
Kurt Edelhagen
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He was born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Edelhagen studied conducting and piano in Essen. In 1945, he started a trio, then a big band a year later. ...
and his Orchestra as themselves
Reception
The
FSK FSK may refer to:
* FSK (band), a German band
* Federal Counterintelligence Service, (Russian ') of Russia
* Fiskerton railway station, in England
* Forskolin, a diterpene
* Forsvarets Spesialkommando, a Norwegian special forces unit
* Fort Scott M ...
gave the film a rating of "6 and up" and deemed it suitable for screening on public holidays.
The film premiered on 31 January 1956 at the ''Ufa-Palast'' in Essen.
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1956 musical comedy films
German musical comedy films
West German films
Films directed by Karl Anton
Films based on operettas
Films about singers
UFA GmbH films
1950s German-language films
1950s German films
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