A Star Fell from Heaven (1934 film)

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A Star Fell from Heaven
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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 byLux-Film
Release date
  • 28 December 1934 (1934-12-28)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryAustria
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.

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  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.425

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