The Telephone Operator (1925 film)

{{Short description|1925 film}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = The Telephone Operator

|image = Das Fräulein vom Amt (poster by Bilinsky).jpg

|caption = Poster by Boris Bilinsky

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Das Fräulein vom Amt}}

|director = Hanns Schwarz

|writer = Henrik Galeen
Adolf Lantz

|music = Giuseppe Becce
Otto Urack

|cinematography = Fritz Arno Wagner

|studio = Sternheim Film

|distributor = UFA

|released = {{Film date|1925|10|15|df=yes}}

|runtime =

|country = Germany

|language = Silent
German intertitles

}}

The Telephone Operator ({{langx|de|Das Fräulein vom Amt}}) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring André Mattoni, Alexander Murski, and Willy Kaiser-Heyl. The film's art direction was by Erich Czerwonski. It was notable for the number of leading UFA technicians who worked on it.{{cite book|last=Kreimeier|first=Klaus|title=The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945|publisher=University of California Press|page=101|year=1999|location=Berkeley|isbn=0520220692}} It premiered on 15 October 1925 at the Tauenzienpalast in Berlin.{{cite book|last=Hardt|first=Ursula|title=From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars|url=https://archive.org/details/fromcaligaritoca00hard|url-access=registration|publisher=Berghahn Books|page=233|year=1996|isbn=1571810250|jstor=j.ctt1c0gm1x}} It is also known by the alternative title Liebe und Telefon.