Film Adaptations
Die Fledermaus has been adapted numerous times for the cinema and for TV:
| Year | Country | Notes | Director | Eisenstein | Rosalinde | Adele | Orlofsky | Frosch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Ger | as Das Fidele Gefängnis (The Merry Jail) silent film | Ernst Lubitsch | Harry Liedtke (Alex von Reizenstein) | Kitty Dewall (Alice, his wife) | Agda Nielson (Mizi, the maid) | Emil Jannings (Quabbe, the jailer) | |
| 1923 | Ger | silent film | Max Mack | Harry Liedtke | Eva May | Lya De Putti | –?– | –?– |
| 1931 | Fr/Ger | Karel Lamač | Georg Alexander | Betty Werner | Anny Ondra | Iván Petrovich | Karl Etlinger | |
| 1933 | GB | Waltz Time – new title | Wilhelm Thiele | Fritz Schulz | Evelyn Laye | Gina Malo | George Baker | Jay Laurier |
| 1937 | Ger | Paul Verhoeven | –?– | –?– | –?– | –?– | –?– | |
| 1945 | Ger | Released 1946 | Géza von Bolváry | Johannes Heesters | Marte Harell | Dorit Kreysler | Siegfried Breuer | Josef Egger |
| 1955 | GB | Oh... Rosalinda!! – new title | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | Michael Redgrave | Ludmilla Tchérina | Anneliese Rothenberger | Anthony Quayle | Oskar Sima |
| 1955 | E Ger | Rauschende Melodien – new title | E. W. Fiedler | Erich Arnold | Jarmila Ksirová | Sonja Schöner | Gerd Frickhöffer | Josef Egger |
| 1959 | W Ger | TV adaptation | Kurt Wilhelm | Friedrich Schoenfelder | –?– | –?– | –?– | –?– |
| 1962 | Aus | Die Fledermaus | Géza von Cziffra | Peter Alexander | Marianne Koch | Marika Rökk | Boy Gobert | Hans Moser |
| 1968 | Den | Flagermusen – new title | John Price | Poul Reichhardt | Birgitte Bruun | Ellen Winther | Susse Wold | Buster Larsen |
| 1972 | W Ger | Otto Schenk | Eberhard Wächter | Gundula Janowitz | Renate Holm | Wolfgang Windgassen | Otto Schenk | |
| 1979 | USSR | Летучая Мышь – new title | Yan Frid | Yury Solomin | Lyudmila Maksakova | Larisa Udovichenko | Yuri Vasilyev | Ivan Lyubeznov |
| 1984 | GB | TV adaptation | Humphrey Burton | Hermann Prey | Kiri Te Kanawa | Hildegard Heichele | Doris Soffel | Josef Meinrad |
| 1986 | W Ger | Otto Schenk | Eberhard Wächter | Pamela Coburn | Janet Perry | Brigitte Fassbaender | Franz Muxeneder | |
| 1990 | GB | Humphrey Burton | Louis Otey | Nancy Gustafson | Judith Howarth | Jochen Kowalski | John Sessions | |
| 1997 | Aust | Lindy Hume | Anthony Warlow | Gillian Sullivan | Amelia Farrugia | Suzanne Johnston | Geoff Kelso | |
| 2001 | Fr | La chauve-souris – French title | Don Kent | Christoph Homberger | Mireille Delunsch | Malin Hartelius | David Moss | Elisabeth Trissenaar |
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