The Singing City | |
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Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
Written by | Hans Székely |
Produced by | Arnold Pressburger Bernard Vorhaus |
Starring | Jan Kiepura Brigitte Helm Walter Janssen |
Cinematography | Curt Courant Arpad Viragh |
Music by | Paul Abraham Philip Braham Ernesto Tagliaferri |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
The Singing City (German: Die singende Stadt) is a 1930 German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Brigitte Helm and Walter Janssen.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Werndorff.
An English-language version of the film, City of Song , also directed by Gallone and starring Kiepura along with a British cast, was released in 1931. [1]
While holidaying in Naples, a wealthy young Austrian woman discovers the singing talents of her tour guide. He falls in love with her, but once she has taken him to Vienna to launch his career he becomes disillusioned with her lifestyle and circles of friends and returns home to Italy and his original girlfriend.
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