A Thousand Melodies

A Thousand Melodies (German: Tausend Melodien) is a 1956 West German musical film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Martin Benrath, Gardy Granass and Helmuth Schneider.

A Thousand Melodies
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	Rolf Dortenwald Hanns H. Fischer
Produced by	Johannes J. Frank Wilhelm Gernhardt
Starring	Martin Benrath Gardy Granass Helmuth Schneider
Cinematography	Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by	Hanna Meisel
Music by	Willy Mattes
Production company	Hans Deppe Film
Distributed by	Neue Filmverleih
Release date	29 June 1956 (1956-06-29)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The film was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann.

Cast

• Martin Benrath as Martin Hoff
• Gardy Granass as Barbara Hoff
• Helmuth Schneider as Thomas Hoff
• Bibi Johns as Irina Servi
• Heli Finkenzeller as Tante Dele
• Paul Henckels as Pasedack, Oberbuchhalter
• Anneliese Würtz as Mutter Hoff
• Ernst Waldow as Ernst Lauterbach
• Käthe Itter as Elisabeth Lauterbach
• Michael Chevalier as Felix Riemann
• Horst Gentzen as Albert Förster
• Ralf Wolter as Hugo Pähler
• Herbert Hübner as Hagebutt
• Erich Fiedler as Konzertagent Heimroth
• Kurt Klüsner as Schnauf
• Peter Cornehlsen
• Das Cornell-Trio as Sänger
• Edith Hancke
• Horst Kraft
• Michael Lengauer
• Heinz Petruo

Bibliography

Lutz Peter Koepnick. The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

External links

• A Thousand Melodies at IMDb