Film Adaptations
| Germany 1926 (silent film) | Austria, 1935 | West Germany, 1952 | West Germany / Austria 1960 | Germany, 1994 (live performance at Berlin's "Bar jeder Vernunft") | |
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| directed by | Richard Oswald | Carl Lamac | Willi Forst | Werner Jacobs | Ursli Pfister |
| Josepha Vogelhuber | Liane Haid | Christl Mardayn | Johanna Matz | Waltraut Haas | Fräulein Schneider |
| Leopold Brandmeyer, head waiter | Max Hansen | Hermann Thimig | Walter Müller | Peter Alexander | Toni Pfister |
| Wilhelm Giesecke, industrialist from Berlin | Henry Bender | Willi Schaeffers | Paul Westermeier | Erik Jelde | Gerd Wameling |
| Ottilie Giesecke, his daughter | Maly Delschaft | Annie Markart | Marianne Wischmann | Karin Dor (playing "Brigitte Giesecke") | Lilo Pfister |
| Dr Siedler, lawyer | Livio Pavanelli | Fritz Odemar | Johannes Heesters | Adrian Hoven | Max Raabe |
| Professor Hinzelmann | Hermann Picha | Theo Lingen (playing "Kommerzienrat Fürst") | Sepp Nigg | Werner Finck | Otto Sander |
| Klärchen Hinzelmann, his daughter | -?- | Marianne Stanior | Ingrid Pan | Estella Blain | Meret Becker |
| Sigismund Sülzheimer | -?- | -?- | Ulrich Beiger | Gunther Philipp | Ursli Pfister |
| Emperor Francis Joseph | -?- | -?- | Rudolf Forster | --- (action updated to the present) | Walter Schmidinger |
A post-war Argentinian movie in Spanish, La Hostería del caballito blanco, was directed by Benito Perojo and released in 1948. A Danish film of 1964 by Erik Balling, Sommer i Tyrol (although the Tyrol is not the original setting), starred Dirch Passer and Susse Wold.
In addition, the musical triggered a number of spin-offs such as the 1961 Austrian comedy film Im schwarzen Rößl (The Black Horse Inn), directed by Franz Antel, about a young woman (surprisingly, it was Karin Dor again, who had just played Giesecke's daughter in the 1960 version) who inherits a dilapidated hotel on the shores of the Wolfgangsee. As a matter of fact, a number of hotels in St. Wolfgang do use similar names (Black Horse, White Stag, etc.).
Read more about this topic: The White Horse Inn
Famous quotes containing the word film:
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)