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The Cornet (film)

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The Cornet
Directed byWalter Reisch
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGöran Strindberg
Edited byRudolf Schaad
Music byWerner Eisbrenner
Production
company
Fama Film
Distributed byAllianz Film
Release date
  • 16 December 1955 (1955-12-16)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Cornet (German: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod) is a 1955 West German historical film war film directed by Walter Reisch and starring Götz von Langheim, Anita Björk and Wolfgang Preiss.[1][2]

Set during the Great Turkish War, the film is related to the 1912 poem The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke. It was shot in Eastmancolor. Location filming took place in Würzburg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wolf Englert.

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