A Thousand Melodies

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A Thousand Melodies
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Directed by Hans Deppe
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by Hanna Meisel
Music by Willy Mattes
Production
company
Hans Deppe Film
Distributed byNeue Filmverleih
Release date
  • 29 June 1956 (1956-06-29)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

A Thousand Melodies (German : Tausend Melodien) is a 1956 West German musical film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Martin Benrath, Gardy Granass and Helmuth Schneider. [1]

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The film was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann.

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References

  1. Koepnick p. 318

Bibliography

Lutz Peter Koepnick. The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. University of Michigan Press, 2007.