The Czar and the Carpenter
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The Czar and the Carpenter (German title:Zar und Zimmermann) is a 1956 East German musical comedy film directed by Hans Müller and starring Willy A. Kleinau, Bert Fortell and Lore Frisch. It is an adaptation of the opera Zar und Zimmermann by Albert Lortzing. It is set around the Russian Tsar Peter the Great's secret visit to the Dutch Republic to study shipbuilding in the seventeenth century.
Main cast
[edit]- Willy A. Kleinau: Van Bettt, Bürgermeister von Saardam
- Bert Fortell: Peter Michailow
- Lore Frisch: Marie
- Günther Haack: Peter Iwanow
- Walther Suessenguth: Admiral Lefort
- Erich Arnold: Marquis Charteauneuf
- Kurt Mühlhardt: Lord Syndham
- Paula Braend: Witwe Brouwe
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- 1956 films
- 1956 musical comedy films
- German musical comedy films
- East German films
- 1950s German-language films
- Films directed by Hans Müller
- Films based on operas
- Films set in the 1690s
- Films set in the Dutch Golden Age
- Opera films
- Cultural depictions of Peter the Great
- Works about the Dutch East India Company
- 1950s German films
- 1950s German film stubs
- Musical comedy film stubs