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England - Die Unbekannte Insel (1945 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare Feature
Radio broadcast. Marius Goring aka Charles Richardson talks about Shakespeare’s Englishness. Includes a recitation of Caliban’s "The isle is full of noises" speech from The Tempest (in English and...
Falstaff in Wien (1940 Film)
aka: Falstaff in Vienna
- Director
- Leopold Hainisch
A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...
Lustigen Weiber, Die (1936 Film)
aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Director
- Carl Hoffmann
Feature film. An operatic version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The lyrics are by Willy Dehmel.
Lärm um Weidemann (1935 Film)
aka: Viel Lärm um Nichts Much Ado About Nothing
- Director
- J. A. Hübler-Kahla
- Producer
- Carl Froehlich
German burlesque film version of the play directed by J. A. Hübler-Kahla. Unemployed Berlin lawyer Hans Weisemann (Viktor de Kowa) falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the daughter of the...
Lustigen Weiber von Wien, Die (1931 Film)
aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Director
- Géza von Bolváry
- Producer
- Julius Haimann
Feature film musical comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The plot concerns the romance between Viennese official Leitner (Hörbiger) and vaudeville headliner Theresa Zalenka...
Blaue Engel, Der (1930 Film)
aka: Blue Angel, The
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Producer
- Erich Pommer
Feature film. An elderly professor is infatuated by an attractive young music-hall singer, and abandons his teaching career to go away with her and her troupe. In one scene Professor Rath uses the line ‘to...
Wie Einst im Mai (1926 Film)
- Director
- Wilhelm Wolff
- Producer
- Ellen Richter
Silent feature film. A romantic family saga which includes scenes from both a stage and film production of Romeo and Juliet.
Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1925 Film)
aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wood Love Heiteres Fastnachtsspeil, Ein
- Director
- Hans Neumann
- Producer
- Hans Neumann
Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the...
Alte Gesetz, Das (1923 Film)
aka: Baruch Ancient Law, The
- Director
- Ewald André Dupont
Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...
Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (1923 Film)
aka: Shylock, Der Jude von Venedig Jew of Mestri, The
- Director
- Peter Paul Felner
- Producer
- Peter Paul Felner
Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.