Johann Strauss II

Tapa Buraco Miserável (2022)

Die Fledermaus (2020)

The plot of Die Fledermaus is woven around a ball given by Prince Orlofsky. ...

Snow Dinosaur (2018)

A little dinosaur sees snow for the first time. And, it looks like he likes it. ...

Eine Nacht in Venedig (2015)

The delightful light operatic farce by Johann Strauss is presented at the Morbisch Lake Festival (Seefestspiele Mörbisch) starring Herbert Lippert, Richard Samek, Heinz Zednik and Dagmar Schellenberger. ...

On the Beautiful Blue Danube (2011)

Animation with coloured salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by Johann Strauss performed by the Strauss Festival Orchestra. ...

Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin (2008)

This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen's original 16mm and DV movie footage combined with concert clips of Vic Chesnutt and members of Silver Mt. Zion, among others. ...

Il pipistrello (La Scala) (2003)

Every night, Johann puts on bat's wings and flies off to enjoy himself. Bella, troubled by her husband's hedonistic activities, consults with her friend Ulrich and plots to disguise herself as a mysterious beauty to seduce her husband. A ballet in two acts ...

Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (2003)

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a Russian prince, that brings together all the main characters in various disguises. The three-act journey fro ...

2001 and Beyond (2001)

Author Arthur C. Clarke and the cast and crew of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" star in this documentary, released in the film's long-anticipated title year. The origins of the production are traced as we see how the early days ...

A Night in Venice (1999)

Johan Strauss Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) together with Die Fledermaus and Die Zigeunerbaron, has long been among the three most popular of the more than a dozen operettas composed by the 19th c. Waltz King. This Rudolf Bibl conducted performance was reco ...

Po całym ciele (1999)

Executioners from the Security Office stand trial. Members of a secret scouting organization seek justice and compensation for persecution in 1950. In the new Polish reality, the trial "fades into the fog"... ...

Opera Australia: Die Fledermaus (1997)

Facing a short term in prison, wealthy Eisenstein heads off to a masquerade ball to enjoy his last evening of freedom. But Eisenstein's wife, Rosalinde, and her chambermaid Adele show up to the costume party in disguise, and each try to teach him a lesson ...

Läderlappen (1995)

As revenge for being humiliated at a masquerade ball Dr. Falke plays a trick on Gabriel von Eisenstein. ...

Strauss: Wiener Blut (1994)

Conductor Johannes Wildner leads the Philharmonic Orchestra Bratislava in a command performance of Johann Strauss's final operetta, "Wiener Blut" (Viennese Blood), at Austria's internationally recognized Mörbisch operetta festival in 1994. The production ...

Die Fledermaus (1990)

After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the major opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, the Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera Hou ...

Course Completed (1987)

A 50-year-old playwright (Jesus Puente) bemoans his fate from his secluded home in Northern Spain in this depressing drama. Side plots include an actress and former acquaintance who comes to visit and his amorous diversions with a 20-year-old local woman. ...

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown (1987)

A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß. ...

Die Fledermaus (1986)

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986. ...

Die Fledermaus (1984)

Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiveness of which is appropriate for the occasion--and this December 31, 1983, Covent Garden performance follows suit. An exceptional cast--led by Hermann Prey a ...

Netopýr (1981)

Strauss: Die Fledermaus (1980)

Theodor Guschlbauer conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in this lavish staging of Johann Strauss's operetta. Recorded in 1980, the production features some of the leading performers of their day, including Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberov ...

Engel und Puppe (1975)

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rosse ...

The Gypsy Baron (1975)

In the Temesvar Province, a landowner returned from exile marries a gypsy girl who is revealed to be the daughter of a Turkish Pasha and the rightful owner of a hidden treasure. Next to "Die Fledermaus", DER ZIGEUNERBARON is Johann Strauss's most popular o ...

Eine Nacht in Venedig (1974)

Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II. Its libretto was by F. Zell and Richard Genée based on Le Château Trompette by Eugène Cormon and Richard Genée. The farcical, romantic story involves several c ...

Vídeňská krev (1973)

Die Fledermaus (1972)

Witty, fun, intoxicating film of Johann Strauss II's popular operetta, based on a stage production from Vienna State Opera; this is a showcase for the entire cast, but most especially Eberhard Wächter as the insufferably boorish Gabriel Eisenstein, and Gu ...

The Great Waltz (1972)

A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr. ...

Adelheid (1970)

In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid. Their relationship forces him to confront the tension between his love and his conscience. ...

Der Zigeunerbaron (1965)

The operetta is one of the greatest stage works by Johann Strauss. It combines the lively waltz melodies of the golden Viennese operetta era with the fiery Csárdás sounds of Hungarian folk music. In 1954, Arthur Rabenalt filmed the operetta with Paul Hö ...

Eine Nacht in Venedig (1962)

Die Fledermaus (1962)

Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein, legal counsel at Arabayam & Co., is serving an eight-day sentence in the Grinzing district prison for insulting a public official. At the same time, however, he is to attend Prince Orlofsky's ball on behalf of his employer, Basil Ar ...

Noc v Benátkách (1957)

Rauschende Melodien (1955)

A close film adaptation of Johann Strauss' "Fledermaus". Notary Falke uses Prince Orlofsky's ball, at which the distinguished gentlemen of Viennese society enjoy themselves with the opera's ballet girls, to take revenge on Dr. Eisenstein, who once embarras ...

The Strauss Fantasy (1954)

Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a medley of waltzes and other familiar pieces by three members of the Strauss family. Filmed in CinemaScope. ...

Eine Nacht in Venedig (1953)

There is great excitement in the Palazzo Urbino. Much to the delight of the ladies, the Duke, known as Don Juan, is expected. But the men of the city are less pleased by his arrival. Senator Delagua therefore decides to hide his beautiful wife in a convent ...

Die Fledermaus (1946)

Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director Frank only releases him after some time. Falke decides to take revenge on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein, to whom he owes the whole affair. The annual mas ...

Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer (1944)

An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman. ...

A Corny Concerto (1943)

Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck. ...

The Night in Venice (1942)

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he's come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. ...

The Great Waltz (1938)

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer. ...

Silhouettes (1936)

The confrontation between two women - a choreographer of a successful troupe and a prima ballerina. Stung by the news of her upcoming dismissal, the prima begins to scheme.. ...

A Night in Venice (1934)

A German-language film loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) by Johann Strauss II. The film was also made into separate Hungarian-language version Egy éj Velencében based on the same screenplay. The two versions wer ...

A Waltz by Strauss (1931)

Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss. ...

Strauss: Die Fledermaus (1980)

Theodor Guschlbauer conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in this lavish staging of Johann Strauss's operetta. Recorded in 1980, the production features some of the leading performers of their day, including Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberov ...