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The Marriage of Figaro (German: Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state studio of East Germany. It sold 5,479,427 tickets.
Original Release
11/25/1949
US Release
11/02/1950
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Angelika Hauff | Susanna |
| Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender | Figaro |
| Sabine Peters | Gräfin Rosine |
| Mathieu Ahlersmeyer | Graf Almaviva |
| Elsa Wagner | Marcellina |
| Victor Janson | Dr. Bartolo |
| Alfred Balthoff | Basilio |
| Franz Weber | Don Curzio |
| Ernst Legal | Antonio |
| Willi Puhlmann | Cherubino |
Directors
Writers
Georg Wildhagen, Lorenzo da Ponte, Beaumarchais
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Angelika Hauff | Susanna |
| Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender | Figaro |
| Sabine Peters | Gräfin Rosine |
| Mathieu Ahlersmeyer | Graf Almaviva |
| Elsa Wagner | Marcellina |
| Victor Janson | Dr. Bartolo |
| Alfred Balthoff | Basilio |
| Franz Weber | Don Curzio |
| Ernst Legal | Antonio |
| Willi Puhlmann | Cherubino |
| Katharina Mayberg | Barbarina |
| Theodor Vogeler | Schreiber |
| Erna Berger | Susanna |
| Tiana Lemnitz | Gräfin |
| Margarete Klose | Marcellina |
| Eugen Fuchs | Dr. Bartolo |
| Paul Schmidtmann | Basilio |
| Kurt Reimann | Don Curzio |
| Willi Sahler | Antonio |
| Annelise Muller | Cherubino |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Heinz Berg | Producer |
| Walter Lehmann | Producer |
