The Forester's Daughter (1931 film)

The Forester's Daughter (German: Die Försterchristl) is a 1931 German operetta film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Irene Eisinger, Paul Richter and Oskar Karlweis.^[1] It is an adaptation of the operetta Die Försterchristl. Zelnik had previously directed a 1926 silent film version The Bohemian Dancer.

The Forester's Daughter
German	Die Försterchristl
Directed by	Frederic Zelnik
Written by	Alfred Frank Bruno Granichstaedten
Produced by	Karl Julius Fritzsche
Starring	Irene Eisinger Paul Richter Oskar Karlweis
Cinematography	Akos Farkas Mutz Greenbaum
Music by	Bruno Granichstaedten
Production company	Transozean Film
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	3 February 1931 (1931-02-03)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by Heinz Fenchel and Jacek Rotmil.

Cast

• Irene Eisinger as Christl Lange, known as "Försterchristl"
• Paul Richter as Emperor Joseph II
• Oskar Karlweis as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• André Pilot [de] as Corporal Franzl Földessy
• Tibor Halmay as Walperl
• Fritz Daghofer [de] as head Forester Lange, Christl's father
• Jelly Staffel as Everl, Mozarts beloved
• Adele Sandrock as Court Lady
• Max Ralph-Ostermann as the Emperor's First Adjutant (as Max-Ralf Ostermann)
• Hanns Waschatko as the Emperor's Second Adjutant
• Gretel Berndt as Fräulein von Földessy
• Louis V. Arco as Austrian officer
• Ernst Wurmser as chef cook at the Vienna Hofburg
• Heinrich Gotho as a notary
• Alfred Frank as worker #1
• Paul Hörbiger as The Old Baron
• Sylvia Torf as a peasant woman
• Rudolf Österreicher as worker #2

References

1. Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 169. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.

External links

• The Forester's Daughter at IMDb