The Pratermizzi

Movie
Original title	The Pratermizzi
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1927
length	50 minutes
Rod
Director	Gustav Ucicky , Karl Leiter , Artur Berger , Walter Reisch
script	Walter Reisch
production	Sascha movie
camera	Gustav Ucicky , Eduard von Borsody
occupation
Igo Sym : Freiherr Christian von B. Anny Ondra : Marie Nita Naldi : Valette, the dancer with the larva Hedy Pfundmayr : Double of the dancer Carl Goetz : Mr. von Z. Ferdinand Leopoldi : Adam Lorenz Stingl, owner of the Grottenbahn Hugo Thimig : Matthias Veitschberger

The Pratermizzi is an Austrian feature film from 1926, which was released in January 1927, was long thought to be lost and was rediscovered in 2005.

action

Marie, cashier in the Vienna Grottenbahn Zum Walfisch , and Baron Christian von B. fall in love, but the dancer Valette, who always wears a larva in front of her face, interferes in the relationship. Christian finally follows Valette to Paris. When he tears the golden mask from her face, he suffers a shock because Valette is disfigured by an illness. He returns to Vienna to die there, but Marie can save him at the last moment.

In this film, the ride through the grotto train is associated with a journey into one's own self.

Story of the film

A nitrate film copy of the Pratermizzi was discovered in 2005 in the archive of the Center national de la cinématographie . The restoration was successful, and in 2005 the film was shown at the opening of the Prater Film Festival.

Excerpts from the film were published in July 2005 on the DVD of the Austrian Film Archive “The Vienna Prater in Film”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summary for DVD "The Prater in the movie" on www.ofdb.de - online movie database , entry date: November 23, 2008 (accessed on 24 February 2009)

Web links

• Die Pratermizzi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Austrian film archive
• Table of contents