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Directed by | Paul L. Stein |
Written by | Heinrich Berté Roger Burford George H. Clutsam John Drinkwater Franz Schulz Alfred Maria Willner (libretto) Heinz Reichert (libretto) Rudolf Hans Bartsch (novel Schwammerl) |
Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
Starring | Richard Tauber Jane Baxter Carl Esmond Athene Seyler |
Cinematography | Otto Kanturek Bryan Langley |
Edited by | Leslie Norman |
Music by | G. H. Clutsam |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Blossom Time is a 1934 British musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter and Carl Esmond. It was based on the opera Blossom Time by Heinrich Berté.[1]
In nineteenth century Vienna, composer Franz Schubert assists a girl with whom he is secretly in love. The film had a London midnight premiere on 10 July 1934, a trade/press showing in Nottingham on 25 July, and opened to the public on 24 August at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, where it ran for seven weeks. The Vienna premiere was at the 'Apollo' on 20 November 1934.