Don Juan (1955 film) explained

Don Juan
Director:	Walter Kolm-Veltée
Producer:	Walter Kolm-Veltée
Editing:	Walter Kolm-Veltée
Studio:	Akkord-Film
Runtime:	89 minutes
Country:	Austria

Don Juan is a 1955 Austrian musical film directed by Walter Kolm-Veltée and starring Cesare Danova, Josef Meinrad and Evelyn Cormand.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1787 Mozart opera Don Giovanni.

The film was shot in the Soviet-controlled Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna.

Cast

• Cesare Danova as Don Giovanni
• Josef Meinrad as Leporello
• Evelyn Cormand as Zerlina
• Hans von Borsody as Masetto
• Lotte Tobisch as Donna Elvira
• Jean Vinci as Don Ottavio
• Marianne Schönauer as Donna Anna
• Fred Hennings as Commendatore
• Senta Wengraf as Elvira's Maid
• Walter Berry as Masetto (singing voice)
• Anny Felbermayer as Zerlina / Donna Anna (singing voice)
• Gottlob Frick as Commendatore (singing voice)
• Helmut Krauss
• Hanna Löser as Donna Elvira (singing voice)
• Hugo Meyer-Welfing as Don Ottavio (singing voice)
• Alfred Poell as Don Giovanni (singing voice)
• Harald Progelhof as Leporello (singing voice)

References

1. Davidson & Hake p.237

Bibliography

• Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.