Much Ado About Nixi

1942 film

Much Ado About Nixi
German film poster

German	Viel Lärm um Nixi

Directed by	Erich Engel
Written by	Hans Hömberg
Produced by	Eberhard Klagemann
Starring	Jenny Jugo Albert Matterstock Hans Leibelt
Cinematography	Reimar Kuntze
Edited by	Elise Lustig
Music by	Giuseppe Becce
Production company	Klagemann-Film
Distributed by	Märkische-Panorama-Schneider
Release date	19 February 1942 (1942-02-19)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Much Ado About Nixi (German: Viel Lärm um Nixi) is a 1942 German comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Jenny Jugo, Albert Matterstock and Hans Leibelt.^[1] It was shot at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. A separate Italian-language version was also produced.

Cast

Jenny Jugo as Nixi Barkas
Albert Matterstock as Roland von Gabriel
Hans Leibelt as Barkas, General manager
Heinz Salfner as Augustus
Otto Gebühr as village school teacher
Fritz Hoopts as Captain
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Gendarm
André Mattoni as Mäcki Fiori
Maria Krahn
Toni von Bukovics
Ernst Rotmund
Karl Hannemann
Karl-Heinz Peters
Klaus Pohl
Maria von Schmedes as singer
Theodor Danegger as vegetable trader

References

^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 228. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.