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A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.Read moreLess
A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.
The story
A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.
Cast & crew
Beniamino GigliEttore Vanni
Peter BosseMario (his son)
Hans MoserGiulio Stückelmeier
Hilde HildebrandRicarda Doret (his wife)
Alfred GeraschDirector
Josef DahmenStage manager
Werner PledathDoctor
Hilde MaroffNurseExplore the crew
- Director
- Carmine Gallone
- Screenplay
- Thea von Harbou
- Director of Photography
- Georg Bruckbauer
- Original Music Composer
- Cesare A. Bixio
- Director of Photography
- Massimo Terzano
- Editor
- Giorgio Simonelli
- Editor
- Oswald Hafenrichter
- Original Music Composer
- Alois Melichar
- Screenplay
- Bernd Hoffmann