Hello, Fraulein!

{{Short description|1949 film directed by Rudolf Jugert}} {{Infobox film | name = Hello, Fraulein! | image =Hello, Fraulein!.png | caption = | director = [[Rudolf Jugert]] | producer = | writer = {{ubl|[[Margot Hielscher]]|[[Helmut Weiss]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Margot Hielscher]]|[[Hans Söhnker]]|[[Peter van Eyck]]}} | music = [[Friedrich Meyer]] | cinematography = [[Georg Bruckbauer]] | editing = [[Luise Dreyer-Sachsenberg]] | studio = [[Bavaria Film]] | distributor =[[Herzog Film]] | released = {{Film date|1949|05|13|df=yes}} | runtime = 84 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Hello, Fraulein!''''' ({{langx|de|'''Hallo, Fräulein!'''}}) is a 1949 German [[musical film]] directed by [[Rudolf Jugert]] and starring [[Margot Hielscher]], [[Hans Söhnker]] and [[Peter van Eyck]].<ref>Koepnick p. 74</ref> It was made by the [[Munich]]-based company [[Bavaria Film]] in what would shortly become [[West Germany]]. It marked the German debut of van Eyck who had actually been born in [[Pomerania]] but had spent many years in the United States, leading him to be promoted in the film's publicity as an American actor.<ref>Davidson & Hake p. 48–50</ref>

The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Max Mellin]]. It was shot at the [[Bavaria Studios]] in Munich. The film's music combines elements of American [[big band]] [[jazz]] and German [[Volksmusik|folk music]].<ref>Davidson & Hake p. 49</ref>

==Synopsis== In [[Southern Germany]] in the months after the end of the [[Second World War]], the commander of American forces occupying a German town tries to promote friendship with the locals by organising a musical show with the assistance of a female [[music student]] who has recently returned from entertaining German soldiers on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]. By inviting a multi-national [[orchestra]] to perform, the two achieve greater international harmony although the student ultimately decides to marry a local [[architect]] rather than the American soldier.

==Cast== * [[Margot Hielscher]] as Maria Neubauer * [[Hans Söhnker]] as Walter Reinhardt * [[Peter van Eyck]] as Tom Keller * [[Bobby Todd]] as Cesare * [[Heidi Scharf]] as Renate * [[Iska Geri]] as Grit * [[Hannelore Bollmann]] as Herta * [[Madelon Truß]] as Berta * [[Werner Scharfenberger]] as Teddy * [[Richard Bendig]] as Seppl * [[Oliver Hassencamp]] as René * [[Johannes Buzalski]] as Gabor * [[Toni Thormal]] as Jan * [[Jürgen Wulf]] as Hans * [[Peter Fiedler]] as Fritz * [[Panos Papadopulos]] as Musiker * [[Freddie Brocksieper]] as Musiker * [[Helmut Zacharias]] as Musiker * [[Eberhard Keim]] as Musiker * [[Cläre Ruegg]] as Frau Neuhaus * [[Bob Norwood]] as Sergeant * [[Franklie Clay]] as Sam * [[Ingeborg Morawski]] as Frl. Senkpiel * [[Petra Unkel]] as Roswitha * [[Karl Schopp]] as Alois * [[Thomas Quigley (actor)|Thomas Quigley]] * [[Bill Nuzun]] * [[Gertrud Braun]]

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. ''Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany''. Berghahn Books, 2007. * Lutz Peter Koepnick. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present''. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0041442}}

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