The Chocolate Soldier (German title: Der tapfere Soldat or Der Praliné-Soldat) is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus (1870–1954) based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man. The German language libretto was by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson.
The 1941 film of the same name enlists much of Strauss' music but is otherwise unrelated, using a plot based Ferenc Molnár's play Testőr .
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