# A Thousand Melodies

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1956 film

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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

***A Thousand Melodies*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Tausend Melodien***) is a 1956 West German [musical film](/source/Musical_film) directed by [Hans Deppe](/source/Hans_Deppe) and starring [Martin Benrath](/source/Martin_Benrath), [Gardy Granass](/source/Gardy_Granass) and [Helmuth Schneider](/source/Helmuth_Schneider).[1]

The film was shot at the [Tempelhof Studios](/source/Tempelhof_Studios) in [West Berlin](/source/West_Berlin) with sets designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Willi Herrmann](/source/Willi_Herrmann) and [Heinrich Weidemann](/source/Heinrich_Weidemann).

## Cast

- [Martin Benrath](/source/Martin_Benrath) as Martin Hoff

- [Gardy Granass](/source/Gardy_Granass) as Barbara Hoff

- [Helmuth Schneider](/source/Helmuth_Schneider) as Thomas Hoff

- [Bibi Johns](/source/Bibi_Johns) as Irina Servi

- [Heli Finkenzeller](/source/Heli_Finkenzeller) as Tante Dele

- [Paul Henckels](/source/Paul_Henckels) as Pasedack, Oberbuchhalter

- [Anneliese Würtz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anneliese_W%C3%BCrtz&action=edit&redlink=1) as Mutter Hoff

- [Ernst Waldow](/source/Ernst_Waldow) as Ernst Lauterbach

- [Käthe Itter](/source/K%C3%A4the_Itter) as Elisabeth Lauterbach

- [Michael Chevalier](/source/Michael_Chevalier) as Felix Riemann

- [Horst Gentzen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horst_Gentzen&action=edit&redlink=1) as Albert Förster

- [Ralf Wolter](/source/Ralf_Wolter) as Hugo Pähler

- [Herbert Hübner](/source/Herbert_H%C3%BCbner) as Hagebutt

- [Erich Fiedler](/source/Erich_Fiedler) as Konzertagent Heimroth

- [Kurt Klüsner](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Kl%C3%BCsner&action=edit&redlink=1) as Schnauf

- [Peter Cornehlsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Cornehlsen&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Das Cornell-Trio](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Das_Cornell-Trio&action=edit&redlink=1) as Sänger

- [Edith Hancke](/source/Edith_Hancke)

- [Horst Kraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horst_Kraft&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Michael Lengauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Lengauer&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Heinz Petruo](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heinz_Petruo&action=edit&redlink=1)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Koepnick p. 318

## 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*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049826/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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