The Song of Kaprun or The Song of the Hohe Tauern (German: Das Lied der Hohen Tauern) is a 1955 Austrian-German drama film directed by Anton Kutter and starring Waltraut Haas, Albert Lieven and Eduard Köck.[1] It is set in Kaprun in the High Tauern mountain range.

The Song of Kaprun
Directed byAnton Kutter
Written by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byHildegard Giese-Goltz
Music byWilly Mattes
Production
companies
  • Bergland-Film
  • Süddeutsche Filmproduktion
Distributed by
  • Union Film (Austria)
  • Kopp-Filmverleih (W.Germany)
Release date
27 January 1955
Running time
109 minutes
Countries
  • Austria
  • West Germany
LanguageGerman

The film's sets were designed by the art director Sepp Rothaur. It was shot on location in the state of Salzburg.

Cast edit

References edit

  1. ^ Fritsche p.253

Bibliography edit

  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

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