On the Green Meadow

On the Green Meadow
Directed byFritz Böttger
Written byHanns H. Fischer
Ulrich Bettac
Produced byAlfred Stöger
StarringHannelore Bollmann
Ida Krottendorf
Lucie Englisch
CinematographySepp Ketterer
Edited byHermine Diethelm
Music byFrank Fox
Production
companies
Wien-Film
Mundus Film
Distributed bySascha Filmverleih
Release date
  • 24 September 1953 (1953-09-24)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

On the Green Meadow (German: Auf der grünen Wiese) is a 1953 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Fritz Böttger and starring Hannelore Bollmann, Ida Krottendorf and Lucie Englisch.[1] It is based on the 1936 operetta of the same title by Jara Beneš and Victor Tolarsky, and used the typical rural setting of heimatfilm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. Location shooting took place around the Vienna Woods. It premiered in Stuttgart in West Germany.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Fritsche p.244

Bibliography

  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.