---
title: 'The Swedish Nightingale (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Peter Paul Brauer'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'Nazi Germany'
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-swedish-nightingale-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034157/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Swedish Nightingale (1941)

1941 · 96 min · Drama, Music · Nazi Germany, Germany

Original title: Die schwedische Nachtigall

## Synopsis

The Swedish Nightingale is a 1941 German musical film directed by Peter Paul Brauer and starring Ilse Werner, Karl Ludwig Diehl, and Joachim Gottschalk. The film is based on a play by Friedrich Forster-Burggraf set in nineteenth century Copenhagen. It portrays a romance between the writer Hans Christian Andersen and the opera singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" of the title.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Peter Paul Brauer](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-paul-brauer)
- **Screenplay:** [Per Schwenzen](https://cinepixo.com/people/per-schwenzen)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Franz Grothe](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-grothe)
- **Producer:** [Ernst Günther Techow](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-gunther-techow)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ewald Daub](https://cinepixo.com/people/ewald-daub)
- **Editor:** [Alice Ludwig](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-ludwig)

## Cast

- [Otto Sauter-Sarto](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-sauter-sarto)
- [Ernst Rotmund](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-rotmund)
- [Kate Kühl](https://cinepixo.com/people/kate-kuhl)
- [Aribert Wäscher](https://cinepixo.com/people/aribert-wascher)
- [Werner Stock](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-stock)
- [Charlotte Schellhorn](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlotte-schellhorn)
- [Karl Hellmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-hellmer)
- [Hans Waschatko](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-waschatko)
- [Joachim Gottschalk](https://cinepixo.com/people/joachim-gottschalk)
- [Jakob Tiedtke](https://cinepixo.com/people/jakob-tiedtke)
- [Erich Dunskus](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-dunskus)
- [Volker von Collande](https://cinepixo.com/people/volker-von-collande)
- [Franz Stein](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-stein)
- [Bruno Ziener](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-ziener)
- [Jeanette Bethge](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanette-bethge)

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