The Marriage of Figaro (1949 film)

The Marriage of Figaro
Directed by	Georg Wildhagen
Produced by	Walter Lehmann
Written by	Pierre Beaumarchais (play); Lorenzo Da Ponte (original libretto); Georg Wildhagen;
Starring	Angelika Hauff; Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender; Sabine Peters; Elsa Wagner;
Music by	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cinematography	Eugen Klagemann; Karl Plintzner;
Edited by	Hildegard Tegener
Production; company	DEFA
Distributed by	Progress Film
Release date	25 November 1949
Running time	107 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

The Marriage of Figaro (German: Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters.[1] It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state production company of East Germany, in their Babelsberg Studio and the nearby Babelsberg Park. It sold 5,479,427 tickets.[2]

The production used not the original Italian but a German text. The recitatives were replaced with dialogue spoken by the actors. Except for Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro and Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva, the singing parts were supplied by opera singers.[3] During Figaro's aria "Non più andrai" (In German: "Nun vergiss leises Flehn"), a battle scene from Veit Harlan's 1942 film The Great King is shown.

Cast

Angelika Hauff as Susanna, sung by Erna Berger
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro
Sabine Peters as Countess Rosina, sung by Tiana Lemnitz
Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva
Elsa Wagner as Marcellina, sung by Margarete Klose
Victor Janson as Dr. Bartolo, sung by Eugen Fuchs
Alfred Balthoff as Basilio, sung by Paul Schmidtmann
Franz Weber as Don Curzio, sung by Kurt Reimann
Ernst Legal as Antonio, sung by Willi Sahler
Willi Puhlmann as Cherubino, sung by Anneliese Müller
Katharina Mayberg as Barbarina, sung by Elfriede Hingst
Theodor Vogeler as Scribe (not a role in the opera)

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References

Davidson & Hake, p. 238
List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
Figaros Hochzeit, Lexikon des internationalen Films, Zweitausendeins

Bibliography

Davidson, John E. & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

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[1] Davidson & Hake, p. 238

[2] List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.

[3] Figaros Hochzeit, Lexikon des internationalen Films, Zweitausendeins