The Eternal Tone

{{short description|1943 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Eternal Tone | image =The Eternal Tone.jpg | caption = | director = [[Günther Rittau]] | producer = [[Ernst Günter Techow]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Artur A. Kuhnert]]|Günther Rittau}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Elfriede Datzig]]|[[Rudolf Prack]]|[[Olga Chekhova]]}} | music = [[Franz Grothe]] | cinematography = [[Willi Kuhle]] | editing = [[Alice Ludwig]] | studio = [[Terra Film]] | distributor = Deutsche Filmvertriebs | released ={{Film date|1943|07|15|df=yes}} | runtime = 87 minutes | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Eternal Tone''''' ({{langx|de|'''Der ewige Klang'''}}) is a 1943 German [[drama film]] directed by [[Günther Rittau]] and starring [[Elfriede Datzig]], [[Rudolf Prack]] and [[Olga Chekhova]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p. 374</ref>

It was shot at the [[Babelsberg Studios|Babelsberg]] and [[Tempelhof Studios]] in [[Berlin]] and [[location filming|on location]] in [[Kitzbühel]] in [[Tyrol (state)|Tyrol]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Artur Günther]].

==Cast== * [[Elfriede Datzig]] as Therese * [[Rudolf Prack]] as Berthold Buchner * [[Olga Chekhova]] as Josephine Malti, Singer * [[Wilhelm Borchert]] as Matthias Buchner * [[O.E. Hasse]] as Impresario Grundmann * [[Georges Boulanger (actor)|Georges Boulanger]] as Mit sein Ensemble * [[Hans Dengel]] as Holzfäller * [[Georg Vogelsang]] as Florian * [[Olga Engl]] as Zuhörerin * [[Leopold Esterle]] as Holzfäller * [[Karl Etlinger]] as Ladeninhaber * [[Liselotte Schaak]] as Zuhörerin * [[Eva Krause]] as Zofe Nanette * [[Eva Klein-Donath]] as Zuhörerin * [[Jack Trevor]] as American * [[Georg H. Schnell]] as American * [[Carl Söllner]] * [[Eduard Gautsch]] as Mitglied der Geigenbauerzunft * [[Helmi Mareich]] as Junges Mädchen * [[Karl Harbacher]] * [[Hans Kratzer]] as Wirt * [[Ludwig Schmid-Wildy]] as Mitglied der Geigenbauerzunft * [[Karl Körner (actor)|Karl Körner]] as Preisrichter * [[Hadrian Maria Netto]] as Alte Exzellence * [[Karl Platen]] as Diener * [[Ekkehard Röhrer]] as Geselle * [[Rudolf Schündler]] as Schneidermeister * [[Richard Ludwig (actor)|Richard Ludwig]] as American * [[Kate Kühl]] as Zuhörerin * [[Kurt Henneberg]] as Geige für R.Prack

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Hake, Sabine. ''German National Cinema''. Routledge, 2002.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0035848}}

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