Das Land des Lächelns (2005)

René Kollo stars in this 1974 atomspheric film version of Lehár's beloved operetta by the noted Vienese director Arthur Maria Rabenalt. Kollo - whose father and grandfather were both operetta composers and who began his own career in light music - plays Prince Sou-Chong, the role that made a celebrity of another leading 20th century tenor, Richard Tauber, and provided him with his most famous song. As performed here by René Kollo almost half a century later, "Dein ist mein ganzes herz" remains the musical highlight of this colourful romance set in Vienna and the Far East. (Deutsche Gramophon)