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Swelling Melodies

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Swelling Melodies
Directed byE.W. Fiedler
Written by
Starring
CinematographyE.W. Fiedler
Edited byDEFA
Music byJohann Strauss (operetta)
Distributed byVEB Progress Film
Release date
  • 20 May 1955 (1955-05-20)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryEast Germany
LanguageGerman

Swelling Melodies (German: Rauschende Melodien) is a 1955 East German musical film directed by E.W. Fiedler and starring Erich Arnold, Jarmila Ksírová and Sonja Schöner.[1] It is an adaptation of the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II and Richard Genée and was part of a tradition of operetta films in German cinema.. It was released in 1955, and sold 4,968,582 tickets.[2]

It was made by the state-backed DEFA studios. The film's sets were designed by Artur Günther.

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  • Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.
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