A Star Fell from Heaven (1934 film)

A Star Fell from Heaven
Directed by	Max Neufeld
Written by	Arthur Rebner Fritz Zoreff
Produced by	Heinrich Hasse
Starring	Joseph Schmidt Egon von Jordan Herbert Hübner
Cinematography	Adolf Schlasy Zoltan Vidor
Edited by	Ladislaus Vidor
Music by	Hans May
Production company	Styria-Film
Distributed by	Lux-Film
Release date	28 December 1934 (1934-12-28)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

A Star Fell from Heaven (German: Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel) is a 1934 Austrian musical film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Joseph Schmidt, Egon von Jordan and Herbert Hübner. It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. Two years later it was remade in Britain with Schmidt reprising his role.^[1] A later German-language film A Star Fell from Heaven released in 1961, was unconnected to the earlier productions.

Cast

• Joseph Schmidt as Joseph Reiner, Musikstudent
• Egon von Jordan as Lincoln, ein berühmter Filmtenor
• Herbert Hübner as Tomson, sein Manager
• Evi Panzner as Annerl, Tochter v. Frau Bachinger
• Elisabeth Markus as Frau Bachinger
• Rudolf Carl as Kerndl, Filmfriseur
• Alfred Neugebauer as Regisseur der Filmgesellschaft
• Franz Johan as Schneider, Aufnahmeleiter
• Karl Skraup as Dr. Freund
• Karl Ehmann
• Paul Gutman
• Reinhold Häussermann
• Ernst Hausman
• Eugen Neufeld
• Ernst Wieland as Professor Türmer
• Helga Demmer as Susi, ein 8jähriges Kind
• Trude Krishaber
• Ernst Rollé
• Das Wiener Boheme-Quartett

References

1. Bock & Bergfelder p.425

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• A Star Fell from Heaven at IMDb