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The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950 film)

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Plot
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Production
Reception
References
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External links

{{Infobox film
| name = The Merry Wives of Windsor
| image = File:The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950 film).jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = Georg Wildhagen
| producer =
| writer = Otto Nicolai (opera)
Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (opera)
William Shakespeare (play)
Georg Wildhagen
Wolff von Gordon
| starring = Sonja Ziemann
Camilla Spira
Paul Esser
Ina Halley
| music = Otto Nicolai (opera)
| editing =
| cinematography = Eugen Klagemann
Karl Plintzner
| studio = DEFA
| distributor = Progress Film
| released = 22 October 1950
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = East Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
}}

The Merry Wives of Windsor ({{lang-de|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.

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

Sonja Ziemann as Mrs. Fluth
Camilla Spira as Mrs. Gretchen Reich
Paul Esser as Sir John Falstaff
Ina Halley as Anna Reich
Eckart Dux as Fenton
Alexander Engel as Innkeeper Reich
Claus Holm as Mr. Fluth
Joachim Teege as Mr. Spärlich
Gerd Frickhöffer as Dr. Cajus
Rita Streich as Mrs. Fluth (singing voice)
Martha Mödl as Mrs. Gretchen Reich (singing voice)
Sonja Schöner as Anna Reich (singing voice)
Helmut Krebs as Fenton (voice)
Hans Kramer as Sir John Falstaff (voice)
Willi Heyer-Kraemer as Innkeeper Reich (singing voice)
Herbert Brauer as Mr. Fluth (singing voice)

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.^[1]

Reception

The film was highly successful by East German standards,^[2] and drew 6,090,329 viewers to the cinemas.^[3] Ernst Richter noted that while "the socially critical tone was unmistakably present in the film", it was free of "heavy-handed communist propaganda."^[4] 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.^[5] Albert Wilkening wrote it was "a significant step forward in making movies in the GDR... Wildhagen's directing was quite skillful."^[6]

References

1. ^Davidson & Hake p.220
2. ^Kersten. p. 29.
3. ^List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
4. ^Richter. p. 245.
5. ^Kersten. p. 52.
6. ^Wilkening. p. 165.

Bibliography

Sabine Hake, John Davidson (editors). Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books (2007). {{ISBN|978-1-84545-204-9}}.
Ernst Richert. Agitation und Propaganda : das System der publizistischen Massenführung in der Sowjetzone. Institut für politische Wissenschaft (1958). OCLC 185953805.
Heinz Kersten. Das Filmwesen in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands. Bundesministerium für Gesamtdeutsche Fragen (1963). ASIN B0000BK48Q.
Albert Wilkening. Film. VEB Bibliographisches Institut (1966). OCLC 7216389.

External links

{{imdb title|0042695|The Merry Wives of Windsor}}
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor on DEFA Sternstunden.

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