Operetta (film)

Operetta
Directed by	Willi Forst
Written by	Axel Eggebrecht Willi Forst
Produced by	Karl Hartl Willi Forst
Starring	Willi Forst Maria Holst Dora Komar Paul Hörbiger
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger
Edited by	Hans Wolff
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	Wien-Film
Release date	20 December 1940 (1940-12-20)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German
Budget	2,100,000 RM (equivalent to €9,294,900 in 2021)
Box office	5,000,000 RM (equivalent to €22,130,715 in 2021)

Operetta (German: Operette) is a 1940 German musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Maria Holst and Dora Komar. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It is the first film in director Willi Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" followed by Vienna Blood (1942) and Viennese Girls (1945). The film portrays the life of Franz Jauner (1832–1900), a leading musical figure in the city.^[1] It is both an operetta film and a Wiener Film.