Me and the Colonel is a 1958 American comedy film based on the play Jacobowsky und der Oberst by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens and Nicole Maurey.
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Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
Werfel photographed by Van Vechten, 1940
Memorial to Werfel in Vienna. The granite pillar carries the inscription: "In Dankbarkeit und Hochachtung – Das Armenische Volk" (In gratitude and respect, the Armenian people)
Werfel's grave in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Armenian stamp (1995): Franz Werfel and a Hero of Musa Dagh