''Forget Me Not'' () is a 1935 German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Augusto Genina Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. Biography Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the ''Il Mondo'' Magazine, under advise of Aldo ...

and starring

Beniamino Gigli Beniamino Gigli ( , ; 20 March 1890 – 30 November 1957) was an Italian opera singer ( lyric tenor). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tenors of his generation. Early life Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a sho ...

, Peter Bosse and

Kurt Vespermann Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor. Career Vespermann was born into a theatrical family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany, now Chełmża, Poland. His great-grandparents were actors a ...

. The rights to the film were bought by

Alexander Korda Sir Alexander Korda (; born Sándor László Kellner; ; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956)

who remade it in Britain the following year.Kulik p. 181

Main cast

as Enzo Curti - tenor Scala of Milano * Peter Bosse as Benvenuto - His son *

as Ernst Mülmann - Curtis Impresario * F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Geheimrat von Berneck *

Magda Schneider Magdalena Maria Schneider (17 May 1909 – 30 July 1996) was a German actress and singer. She was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider. Biography Magdalena Maria Schneider was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the daughter of a plumber. She atte ...

as Liselotte Heßfeld - seine Sekretärin *

Siegfried Schürenberg Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never p ...

as Hellmut von Ahrens - Erster Offizier *

Erik Ode Erik Ode (born Fritz Erik Signy Odemar, 6 November 1910 – 19 July 1983) was a German director and actor who was most famous for playing Kommissar ''Herbert Keller'' in the German television drama ''Der Kommissar (TV series), Der Kommissar'' (The ...

as Peter Petermann, Dritter Offizier * Hedda Bjornson as Irene Hart * Zoya Valevskaya as Olga

Citations

General bibliography

* Kulik, Karol
''Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles''
Virgin Books, 1990.

External links

* 1935 films Films of Nazi Germany German drama films German black-and-white films 1935 drama films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Augusto Genina 1930s German films Films scored by Alois Melichar {{1930s-Germany-film-stub