Die Fledermaus (1946 film)

Die Fledermaus
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Directed by	Géza von Bolváry
Written by	Richard Genée (libretto) Karl Haffner (libretto) Ernst Marischka
Produced by	Alf Teichs Viktor von Struwe
Starring	Marte Harell Johannes Heesters Will Dohm
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Alice Ludwig
Music by	Alois Melichar Johann Strauss (operetta)
Production companies	Terra Film DEFA
Distributed by	Sovexport
Release date	16 August 1946 (1946-08-16)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Die Fledermaus is a 1946 German operetta film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters, and Will Dohm.^[1] It is based on Johann Strauss II's 1874 work of the same name.

The film was made by Terra Film, one of major German production companies of the Nazi era. It was shot using agfacolor at the Barrandov Studios in Prague and the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Although production began in 1944, the film was not released until 1946 when it was distributed by the communist-controlled DEFA company in the Soviet occupation zone.

The film's sets were designed by Robert Herlth.

• Überläufer

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

• Die Fledermaus at IMDb

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