Die Fledermaus (1946) Geza von Bolvary; Marte Harell, Willy Fritsch

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This is a region-free DVD+R without case or artwork.

In German with English subtitles. Agfacolor.

Not strictly a film of the famous opera, but rather a comedy with operatic overtones. Such full-throated singing personalities as Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters, Willi Dohm and Haus Brauseweiter go through the time-honored paces of the opera's libretto, wherein an upper-class Viennese gentleman simultaneously tries to avoid arrest and to prove his wife's fidelity. Because of running-time restrictions, the audience is denied the pleasure of the original opera's third-act highlight, wherein the participants are invited to sing their favorite operatic arias, whether written by Strauss or not. Happily, the lengthy, largely ad-libbed scene with Frosch the jailer remains intact, with Willi Fritsch bringing down the house as the bibulous Frosch. The Afgacolor process is cleverly deployed throughout, especially in the scene wherein Rosalind (Marte Harell) dyes her hair a flaming red.

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A lovely, Afgacolor print	April 11, 2020
Reviewer: Patrick Hunter from Panorama City, CA United States

The film is kitsch, but well-done kitsch. Hard to believe it was made while Germany was in rubble, the movie is an escapist truffle of entertainment.

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Not the full opera	February 1, 2016
Reviewer: SeaDragon from Langhorne, PA United States

This is a wonderful film, but was expecting the players to sing the opera. Instead, it is an explanation of the story, with snippits of the opera sung at the party. Don't get to really evaluate the singing. One of the waltzes is not from this opera. If you need an explanation of the opera before sitting through the opera, this would be the movie.

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