City of Song

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City of Song
Directed by Carmine Gallone
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Curt Courant
Arpad Viragh
Edited by Lars Moen
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed bySterling Films
Release date
  • 9 January 1931 (1931-01-09)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesGermany
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

City of Song, also known as Farewell to Love, is a 1931 British/German romance film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Betty Stockfeld and Hugh Wakefield. [1] It was shot at Wembley Studios. [2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Oscar Friedrich Werndorff and J. Elder Wills. A German-language version was released in 1930 under the title The Singing City .

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Plot

A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protégé.

Cast

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References

  1. BFI.org
  2. Wood p.69

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