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Grand Duchess Alexandra (German: Großfürstin Alexandra) is a 1933 Austrian operetta film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Maria Jeritza, Paul Hartmann and Leo Slezak. It is based on Franz Lehár's operetta of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Berger.
Großfürstin Alexandra: Directed by Wilhelm Thiele. With Maria Jeritza, Paul Hartmann, Leo Slezak, Johannes Riemann. A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.
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- Musical
- Wilhelm Thiele
- 1933-11-14
- Anastasia
- Nicholas and Alexandra
- Agony
- The Assassin of The Tsar
- Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
- The Romanovs: An Imperial Family
- Rasputin
- Matilda
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