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The Swedish Nightingale (German: Die schwedische Nachtigall) is a 1941 German musical film directed by Peter Paul Brauer and starring Ilse Werner, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Joachim Gottschalk. The film is based on a play by Friedrich Forster-Burggraf set in nineteenth century Copenhagen. It portrays a romance between the writer Hans Christian Andersen and the opera singer Jenny Lind the "Swedish Nightingale" of the title.
It is noteworthy that at the time when the film was made, Germany was keeping Denmark under military occupation but attempting a relatively conciliatory attitude towards the occupied Danes. Germany was also making an effort to keep good relations with the neutral Sweden. The theme of the film - made at a time when Joseph Goebbles' Propaganda Ministry kept tight control of the German film industry - obviously fit well with these policy aims.
Original Release
04/09/1941
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ilse Werner | Jenny Lind |
Karl Ludwig Diehl | Count Rantzan / Staatsminister Graf Rantzau |
Joachim Gottschalk | Hans Christian Andersen |
Aribert Wäscher | Peer Upän / Verleger Peer Upan |
Marianne Simson | Karin Nielsson |
Hans Leibelt | Theatre Director / Theaterdirektor |
Emil Heß | Thorwaldsen |
Hans Hermann Schaufuß | Orchestra Conductor |
Volker von Collande | Olaf Larsson / Olaf Larsson, Jennys Verlobter |
Kate Kühl | Frl. Rindom, Sängerin |
Directors
Writers
Hans Christian Andersen, Friedrich Forster-Burggraf, Henri Lemarchand, Per Schwenzen, Gert von Klaß
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ilse Werner | Jenny Lind |
Karl Ludwig Diehl | Count Rantzan / Staatsminister Graf Rantzau |
Joachim Gottschalk | Hans Christian Andersen |
Aribert Wäscher | Peer Upän / Verleger Peer Upan |
Marianne Simson | Karin Nielsson |
Hans Leibelt | Theatre Director / Theaterdirektor |
Emil Heß | Thorwaldsen |
Hans Hermann Schaufuß | Orchestra Conductor |
Volker von Collande | Olaf Larsson / Olaf Larsson, Jennys Verlobter |
Kate Kühl | Frl. Rindom, Sängerin |
Ruth Lommel | Eine Debütantin |
Elga Brink | Gräfin Ebba Douglas |
Erich Dunskus | Postmeister |
Angelo Ferrari | Italienischer Gastwirt |
Werner Stock | Prinz Schweinehirt |
Jakob Tiedtke | Kaiser (China-Märchen) |
Wilfried Seyferth | Hofjunker (China-Märchen) |
Alwin Lippisch | Leibarzt (China-Märchen) |
Charlotte Schellhorn | Küchenmädchen (China-Märchen) |
Ernst Sattler | Axel Lind |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ernst Günter Techow | Producer |