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The Merry Wives of Windsor (1965 film)

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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Directed byGeorg Tressler
Written byWilliam Shakespeare (play)
Norman Foster
Otto Nicolai
Georg Tressler
Produced byNorman Foster
StarringNorman Foster
Colette Boky
Charles Igor Gorin
CinematographyHannes Staudinger
Edited byPaula Dvorak
Release date
  • February 1965 (1965-02)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesAustria
United Kingdom
LanguageGerman

The Merry Wives of Windsor (German:Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1965 Austrian-British historical comedy film directed by Georg Tressler and starring Norman Foster, Colette Boky and Charles Igor Gorin.[1] The film is a musical adapting for the screen Otto Nicolai's opera after Shakespeare's play.[2][3][4]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Sammons p.88
  2. ^ Hardy, Thomas (29 January 2009), "XXXII 'Had I wist before I kist.'", A Pair of Blue Eyes, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-953849-2, retrieved 12 March 2025
  3. ^ Cahir, Linda Costanzo (24 December 2014). Literature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8299-3.
  4. ^ Bianco e nero (in Italian). Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. 1965.

Bibliography

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  • Eddie Sammons. Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Scarecrow Press, 2004.
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