Amphitryon (film)

{{short description|1935 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Amphitryon

| image = Amphitryon (film).jpg

| caption =

| director = Reinhold Schünzel

| screenplay = Reinhold Schünzel

| based_on = {{based on|Amphitryon|Plautus|Molière|Heinrich von Kleist}}

| starring = Willy Fritsch

| producer = Günther Stapenhorst

| music = Franz Doelle

| cinematography = {{ubl|Werner Bohne|Fritz Arno Wagner}}

| editing = Arnfried Heyne

| studio = UFA

| distributor = UFA

| released = {{Film date|1935|07|18|df=y}}

| runtime = 105 minutes

| country = Nazi Germany

| language = German

}}

Amphitryon is a 1935 German musical film. Written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel, it is based on plays by Molière, Plautus, and Heinrich von Kleist, which in turn are based on Greek mythology. On the contrary, Rafael de España, an expert in Greek-themed cinema, points out that it is not a direct adaptation of any of the previous works, but rather a work with multiple humorous anachronisms taken from the American film Roman Scandals (1932).{{Cite book |last=de España |first=Rafael |title=La historia antigua a través del cine. Arqueología, Historia antigua y tradición clásica |publisher=Editorial UOC |year=2013 |isbn=978-84-9029-870-1 |location=Barcelona |pages=59 |language=es |chapter=La Antiguedad al servicio de la actualidad. Cómo las ideas del presente influyen en la recreación cinematográfica del pasado}}

The film is known by a variety of other names: Amphitryon – Happiness from the Clouds, Amphitryon – Aus den Wolken kommt das Glück in Austria, Amfitryon in Greece, Anfitrione in Italy, Det gudomliga äventyret in Sweden.

Amphitryon was filmed in Ufa-Atelier, Neubabelsberg, from 2 February 1935 – May 1935. It was one of UFA's many multiple-language version films: a French version, Les dieux s'amusent (The gods are having fun), was shot at the same time.