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Overview
The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 30, 1937
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Tobis Filmkunst,Imagoton
- Cast
- Georg Alexander,Robert Dorsay,Hans Stiebner,Otto Graf,Karl Stepanek,Lída Baarová,Fritz Draeger,Hans Moser,Arthur Kistenmacher,Friedrich Kühneand 22 more
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven,Hans H. Zerlett
- Producer
- Gerhard Staab
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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