The Widow's Ball

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The Widow's Ball
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German Der Witwenball
Directed by Georg Jacoby
Written by Friedrich Raff  [ de ]
Julius Urgiß
Produced by Seymour Nebenzal
Starring Lucie Englisch
Fritz Kampers
Sig Arno
Cinematography Friedl Behn-Grund
Production
company
Distributed byVereinigte Star-Film
Release date
  • 4 February 1930 (1930-02-04)
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Widow's Ball (German : Der Witwenball) is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Lucie Englisch, Fritz Kampers, and Sig Arno. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter.

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References

  1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 17. ISBN   1571816550. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.