Professor Nachtfalter
Directed by	Rolf Meyer
Written by	Paul Baudisch Per Schwenzen Kurt E. Walter Joachim Wedekind
Produced by	Rolf Meyer
Starring	Johannes Heesters Jeanette Schultze Maria Litto
Cinematography	Georg Bruckbauer
Edited by	Martha Dübber
Music by	Friedrich Schröder
Production company	Junge Film-Union Rolf Meyer
Distributed by	National-Film
Release date	23 February 1951 (1951-02-23)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Professor Nachtfalter is a 1951 West German comedy film directed by Rolf Meyer and starring Johannes Heesters, Jeanette Schultze and Maria Litto.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. The film was made at the Bendestorf Studios and partly shot on location at Lake Constance. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. It cost around 900,000 Deutschmarks to make.

The male music teacher at a girls boarding school is far too popular with his female students, leading to his aunt, the headmistress, ordering him to get married. While in the city he gets entangled with a nightclub singer, who then enrolls at the school pretending to be a student.

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

• Professor Nachtfalter at IMDb

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