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Theft of the Sabines (1954)

Theft of the Sabines poster
Original title
Der Raub der Sabinerinnen
Directed by
Kurt Hoffmann
Genre
comedy film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A musical comedy set in a small German town. A theater troupe decides to put on a play about the abduction of the Sabine women, which leads to comic misunderstandings and romantic entanglements among the actors and locals.

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What happens

The Abduction of the Sabine Women (German: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen) is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Gustav Knuth, Fita Benkhoff and Paul Hörbiger. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann Warm, Erich Grave and Paul Markwitz. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Bavaria. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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