Child of the Danube

Child of the Danube
German	Kind der Donau
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Georg Jacoby Friedrich Schreyvogel
Produced by	Karl Brenneis Josef A. Vesely
Starring	Marika Rökk Fred Liewehr Nadja Tiller
Cinematography	Hanns König Walter Riml
Edited by	Paula Dvorak Leontine Klicka
Music by	Nico Dostal
Production companies	Nova-Film Wien-Film
Distributed by	Neue Filmverleih
Release date	4 August 1950 (1950-08-04)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

Child of the Danube (German: Kind der Donau) is a 1950 Austrian musical film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Fred Liewehr and Harry Fuß. It was one of a cycle of popular musicals made by Jacoby and Rökk.^[1] The film was shot using Agfacolor at the Soviet-controlled Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. Location shooting took place around Linz on the River Danube. The film's sets were designed by the art director Julius von Borsody.

Partial cast

• Marika Rökk as Marika
• Fred Liewehr as Georg
• Harry Fuß as Heinrich
• Fritz Muliar as Oskar
• Joseph Egger as Christoph
• Annie Rosar as Frau Kovacs
• Helli Servi as Edith
• Nadja Tiller as actress
• Erich Auer as tenor
• Karl Skraup as editor

References

1. Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007. p. 219. ISBN 1845455363.

Bibliography

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

External links

• Child of the Danube at IMDb