The Gypsy Baron (1935 film)

The Gypsy Baron
Directed by	Karl Hartl
Written by	Mór Jókai (novel) Vineta Klinger Ignaz Schnitzer (libretto) Walter Supper Tibor Yost
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Starring	Anton Walbrook Hansi Knoteck Fritz Kampers
Cinematography	Otto Baecker Günther Rittau
Edited by	Milo Harbich
Music by	Alois Melichar Johann Strauss (operetta)
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	17 April 1935 (1935-04-17)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Gypsy Baron (German: Zigeunerbaron) is a 1935 German operetta film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Anton Walbrook, Hansi Knoteck and Fritz Kampers. It is an adaptation of the 1885 operetta The Gypsy Baron. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios of UFA in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting. It was shot on location in Brandenburg and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A separate French-language version, Le baron tzigane, was also produced.

Main cast

• Anton Walbrook as Sandor Barinkay
• Hansi Knoteck as Saffi
• Fritz Kampers as Koloman Zsupan
• Gina Falckenberg as Arsena Zsupan, seine Tochter
• Edwin Jürgensen as Homonay
• Rudolf Platte as Ernö
• Josef Sieber as Pali
• Margarete Kupfer as Czipra
• Kenneth Rive as Junge

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.

External links

• The Gypsy Baron at IMDb