Daughter of the Regiment (German: Die Tochter des Regiments) is a 1933 Austrian-German comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Anny Ondra, Werner Fuetterer and Adele Sandrock.[1] It is loosely based on the 1840 opera La fille du regiment by Gaetano Donizetti, with the setting updated from the Napoleonic to the First World War. A separate French-language version was also released, with Ondra reprising her role.
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German | Die Tochter des Regiments |
Directed by | Carl Lamac |
Written by | Hans H. Zerlett |
Produced by | Artur Hohenberg Nikolaus Nowik |
Starring | Anny Ondra Werner Fuetterer Adele Sandrock |
Cinematography | Otto Heller Ernst Mühlrad Kurt Neubert |
Music by | Jára Benes Curt Lewinnek |
Production companies | Ondra-Lamac-Film Vandor Film |
Distributed by | Kiba Kinobetriebsanstalt (Austria) |
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Countries | Austria Germany |
Language | German |
A baby girl is found and rescued by a Scottish regiment during the First World War and adopted as the regiment's daughter. Many years later she is a grown-up when the Highlanders are sent on a special mission to the mountains of Bavaria to crack down on whiskey smugglers.