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Opera Ball (1956)

Opera Ball poster
Original title
Opernball
Directed by
Ernst Marischka
Genre
musical film
Country
Austria
Runtime
1h 47m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman attend a grand ball in Vienna. They meet and fall in love during the evening.

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What happens

Opera Ball (German: Opernball) is a 1956 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Johannes Heesters, Hertha Feiler and Josef Meinrad. Based on the 1898 operetta Der Opernball, it is part of the operetta film tradition. A previous film version had been made in 1939. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. It was shot using Agfacolor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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