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Moonlight Sonata (Original title)The Charmer (Alternative title)
Date: 1937 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Lothar Mendes

Synopsis: Paderewski makes a landing in Sweden, and becomes involved in a triangular situation. Music: a Chopin polonaise, Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody, first movement of Beethovens' Moonlight Sonata, Paderewski's Minuet.

Genres:
Melodrama, Romance

Subject:
Music
Releases
Date: 1937Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 86 mins Length: 7795 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1943Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 49 mins Length: 4468 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Anglo-American

Credits (18)
Production Company: Pall Mall Productions, A Lothar Mendes Production: Lothar Mendes, Unit Manager: Cecil Dixon, Production Manager: Phil C. Samuel, Assistant Director: Andrew Allan, Screenplay: Edward Knoblock, Additional dialogue: E.M. Delafield, From an original story by: Hans Rameau, Photography: Jan Stallich, Editor: Philip Charlot, Settings: Laurence Irving, [Music, 'Polonaise in A Flat Major]: Frédéric Chopin, [Music, 'Second Hungarian Rhapsody']: Franz Liszt, [Music, 'Opus 14, Minuet in G']: Ignace Jan Paderewski, [Music, 'Moonlight Sonata']: Ludwig van Beethoven, Recordist: C.K. Medlen, Studio: Denham Studios
Cast (10)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (himself), Charles Farrell (Eric Molander), Marie Tempest (Baroness Lindenborg), Barbara Greene (Ingrid), Eric Portman (Mario de la Costa), Graham Browne (Dr Broman), Queenie Leonard (Margit, Dr Broman's niece), Lawrence Hanray (bishop), Binkie Stuart (child), Bryan Powley ([Nils])