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The Merry Wives of Windsor (1965)

The Merry Wives of Windsor poster
Original title
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Directed by
Georg Tressler
Genre
musical film
Country
United Kingdom, Austria
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two married women in a small English town decide to teach a lesson to a fat knight who is trying to seduce them both. Their schemes lead to comic situations and a happy ending.

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What happens

The Merry Wives of Windsor (German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1965 Austrian-British historical comedy film directed by Georg Tressler and starring Norman Foster, Colette Boky and Charles Igor Gorin. It was written by Foster and Tressler as a film musical adaptation of Otto Nicolai's opera after Shakespeare's play. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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