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The Czar and the Carpenter (German title:Zar und Zimmermann) is a 1956 East German musical comedy film directed by Hans Müller and starring Willy A. Kleinau, Bert Fortell and Lore Frisch. It is an adaptation of the opera Zar und Zimmermann by Albert Lortzing. It is set around the Russian Tsar Peter the Great's secret visit to the Dutch Republic to study shipbuilding in the seventeenth century.

Main cast

Willy A. Kleinau: Van Bettt, Bürgermeister von Saardam
Bert Fortell: Peter Michailow
Lore Frisch: Marie
Günther Haack: Peter Iwanow
Walther Suessenguth: Admiral Lefort
Erich Arnold: Marquis Charteauneuf
Kurt Mühlhardt: Lord Syndham
Paula Braend: Witwe Brouwe

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