Figaros Hochzeit (1949)
November 25, 1949Release Date
Figaros Hochzeit (1949)
November 25, 1949Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Angelika Hauff
Susanna

Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
Figaro

Sabine Peters
Gräfin Rosine

Mathieu Ahlersmeyer
Graf Almaviva

Elsa Wagner
Marcellina

Victor Janson
Dr. Bartolo

Alfred Balthoff
Basilio

Franz Weber
Don Curzio

Ernst Legal
Antonio

Katharina Mayberg
Barbarina

Ewald Wenck
Notenschreiber

Lorenzo da Ponte
Writer

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Writer

Georg Wildhagen
Director / Writer

Hildegard Tegener
Editor

Walter Lehmann
Producer
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The Marriage of Figaro (German: Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state production company of East Germany, in their Babelsberg Studio and the nearby Babelsberg Park. It sold 5,479,427 tickets.
The production used a German text instead of the Italian original. The recitatives were replaced with dialogue spoken by the actors. Except for Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro and Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva, the singing parts were supplied by opera singers. During Figaro's aria "Non più andrai" (In German: "Nun vergiss leises Flehn"), a battle scene from Veit Harlan's 1942 film The Great King is shown.