The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950 film)
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Duration Country East Germany | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Release date 22 October 1950 Production Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft Cast (Frau Fluth (Mistress Ford)), (Frau Gretchen Reich (Mistress Page)), (Sir John Falstaff (Johannes Spenser)), (Fenton), (Herr Fluth) Similar movies The Singing Ringing Tree (1957), Blum Affair (1948), Murderers Among Us (1946), For Eyes Only (1963) |
Otto nikolai the merry wives of windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor (German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1950 East German musical comedy film directed by Georg Wildhagen. It was based on William Shakespeare's play by the same name.
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Otto nikolai the merry wives of windsor
Plot
In Elizabethan England, Sir John Falstaff is embroiled in attempting to have a love affair with several women, which soon turns into a humorous adventure.
Cast
Production
The film is an adaptation of the 1849 opera The Merry Wives of Windsor composed by Otto Nicolai with a libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal which was based on William Shakespeare's play of the same title. It was made by the state-owned DEFA studio on a large budget.
Reception
The film was highly successful by East German standards, and drew 6,090,329 viewers to the cinemas. Ernst Richter noted that while "the socially critical tone was unmistakably present in the film", it was free of "heavy-handed communist propaganda." Heinz Kersten characterized it as one of the last apolitical entertainment pictures produced by DEFA before the Socialist Unity Party of Germany tightened its control on the national film industry. Albert Wilkening wrote it was "a significant step forward in making movies in the GDR... Wildhagen's directing was quite skillful."
References
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