A Night in Venice (1953 film)

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A Night in Venice
A Night in Venice 1953 poster.jpg
Directed by Georg Wildhagen
Written by Richard Genée (libretto)
Camillo Walzel (libretto)
Rudolf Österreicher
Produced by J.A. Vesely
Starring Hans Olden
Jeanette Schultze
Peter Pasetti
Marianne Schönauer
Cinematography Walter Tuch
Edited by Paula Dvorak
Leopoldine Pokorny
Music by Johann Strauss (operetta)
Nico Dostal
Production
companies
Nova-Film
Wien-Film
Distributed byUniversal-Film
Release date
  • 16 October 1953 (1953-10-16)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

A Night in Venice (German: Eine Nacht in Venedig) is a 1953 Austrian operetta film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Hans Olden, Jeanette Schultze and Peter Pasetti. It is adapted from the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig by Johann Strauss, which had previously been turned into a 1934 film A Night in Venice directed by Robert Wiene. [1]

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The film was shot in the Soviet-controlled Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna.

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  1. Goble p.446

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