The Merry Wives of Windsor (1965 film)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
Directed byGeorg Tressler
Written byWilliam Shakespeare (play)
Norman Foster
Otto Nicolai
Georg Tressler
Produced byNorman Foster
StarringNorman Foster
Colette Boky
Charles Igor Gorin
CinematographyHannes Staudinger
Edited byPaula Dvorak
Music byOtto Nicolai
Production
companies
  • Wien-Film
  • B.H.E. Productions Ltd
Release date
  • February 1965 (1965-02)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesAustria
United Kingdom
LanguageGerman

The Merry Wives of Windsor (German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1965 Austrian-British historical comedy film directed by Georg Tressler and starring Norman Foster, Colette Boky and Charles Igor Gorin. It was written by Foster and Tressler as a film musical adaptation of Otto Nicolai's opera after Shakespeare's play.