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The Marriage of Figaro (1949 film)

The Marriage of Figaro is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state production company of East Germany, in their Babelsberg Studio and the nearby Babelsberg Park. It sold 5,479,427 tickets.

Cast
Angelika Hauff as Susanna, sung by Erna BergerWilli Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro • Sabine Peters as Countess Rosina, sung by Tiana LemnitzMathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva • Elsa Wagner as Marcellina, sung by Margarete KloseVictor Janson as Dr. Bartolo, sung by Eugen Fuchs • Alfred Balthoff as Basilio, sung by Paul Schmidtmann • Franz Weber as Don Curzio, sung by • Ernst Legal as Antonio, sung by Willi Sahler • Willi Puhlmann as Cherubino, sung by Anneliese MüllerKatharina Mayberg as Barbarina, sung by Elfriede Hingst • as Scribe (not a role in the opera) == References ==
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