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It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and "pre-code" scenes that make you sit up and stare.Read moreLess
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and "pre-code" scenes that make you sit up and stare.
The story
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and "pre-code" scenes that make you sit up and stare.
Cast & crew
Gustav FröhlichRichard Faber
Gustaf GründgensOtto van Lingen
Gertrud ArnoldFrau Konsul van Lingen
Julius FalkensteinLöwenthal
Sophie PagayCast
Jarmila NovotnáPrimadonnaExplore the crew
- Producer
- Carl Froelich
- Director
- Carl Froelich
- Writer
- Walter Reisch
- Writer
- Walter Supper
- Director of Photography
- Fritz Arno Wagner
- Director of Photography
- Reimar Kuntze