Gasparone (film)

Gasparone
German film poster
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Friedrich Zell (libretto) Werner Eplinius Hans Leip Rudo Ritter [de]
Based on	Gasparone by Carl Millöcker
Produced by	Max Pfeiffer
Starring	Marika Rökk Johannes Heesters Heinz Schorlemmer [de]
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by	Carl Otto Bartning
Music by	Peter Kreuder
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	17 December 1937 (1937-12-17)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Gasparone is a 1937 German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Johannes Heesters and Heinz Schorlemmer [de].^[1] It is based on the operetta Gasparone by Carl Millöcker with a libretto by F Zell and Richard Genée. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Croatia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.

Cast

• Marika Rökk as Ita
• Johannes Heesters as Erminio Bondo
• Heinz Schorlemmer [de] as Sindulfo
• Edith Schollwer [de] as Carlotta
• Oskar Sima as Massaccio
• Leo Slezak as Nasoni
• Rudolf Platte as Benozzo
• Elsa Wagner as Zenobia
• Ursula Herking as Sora
• Arnim Suessenguth as Jucundus
• Ernst Behmer as Sokrates
• Erwin Biegel as man with white clove
• Erich Kestin as adjutant to the Police Prefect
• Paul Schwed as police captain

References

1. Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 234. ISBN 0520220692.

Bibliography

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

External links

• Gasparone at IMDb