The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!
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Die Fledermaus
Von 1944/45. Durch Ernst Marischkas Drehbuch eine vom Original deutlich abweichende das Stück aber logischer machende Verfilmung von '44 mit Willy ...
Schulfilm-DVD: Die Fledermaus - aka "Die Rache einer Fledermaus" (DVD / Vorschau)
Hier DVD bestellen: In die Gegenwart des Jahres 1937 verlegte Komödie nach Motiven der Operette von Johann Strauss: Tenor ...
»Die Fledermaus« - Trailer (Oper Leipzig)
Johann Strauß Die Fledermaus Operette in drei Akten | Text von Carl Haffner und Richard Genée Spieldauer ca. 2 3/4 Stunden | Eine Pause Gemäß dem Motto ...
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This travelogue begins at Bangkok's rail depot, a center of Indo-Chinese commerce. Next the narrator talks about Buddhism as the camera shows us some of Bangkok's many temples.
Miss Klutz is the worst dancer that has ever enrolled at the school ran by Maestro Boris Cobblier, and he is even considering giving her money back to get rid of her, a consideration not to his financial liking.
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man.
Dark and windy night, the village is haunted, the villagers do not dare to go out, so they invited the magician to catch the ghost, after a day, the night, the magician was eaten by the ghost, leaving a pile of bones and brains, the villagers buried the bones and brains of the magician.
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status.
Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club.
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