Your Highness Dances the Waltz (1935)
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| Original title | Your Highness waltzes |
| Country of production |
Austria Czechoslovakia |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Neufeld |
| script | Max Neufeld |
| production | Julius Aussenberg |
| music | Leo Ascher |
| camera | Willy Goldberger |
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Highness dances the waltz is an Austrian-Czechoslovak music film romance by Max Neufeld from 1935 with Hans Jaray in the leading role. The film is based on the operetta of the same name (1912) by Leo Ascher .
action
Vienna , around 1820. The young musician and composer Josef Langer lives in the house of Beethoven's copyist Hofer in Grinzing . In the evenings he plays with his own compositions in the Prater to dance. These melodies were not particularly popular at that time, because the time for the waltz as a music and dance style was not yet ripe and snobbish art lovers would dismiss these tunes as "dive bar music". In the Prater, Josef listens to the young Princess Marika, an orphan who lives in the house of her uncle, the Prince of Hohenau. She came here with her cousin Prince Georg, who was supposed to be her husband, but without having obtained the consent of the aristocratic foster parents, because for high-ranking personalities it is considered unfair to mingle with the common people at a hype like the Prater .
While Prince Georg leaves for a short time because he has met acquaintances, Marika listens intently to Josef's musical performances. There is a conversation between the composer and the princess outside the door of the pub. Josef and Marika suddenly fell in love with each other, and both hearts quickly became aflame for one another. Since Langer doesn't know who the other person is talking to, he hopes for more than just a flirt. As a result, Josef will compose a waltz for Marika over the next few days, which he first plays for Liesl Hofer, the daughter of his carpenter. Liesl loves Josef, but he knows nothing about his happiness. But since Marika learns that Liesl is interested in Josef and believes that this interest will be returned by the composer, the princess begins to turn away from the musician. He has already received an invitation from Marika to an evening party to play there. Once there, however, Marika gives Josef the cold shoulder.
The distinguished audience is enraptured by Lager's ability and the waltz music, which is new to them, until the snooty and arrogant Prince Georg announces that the composer and pianist is just a Prater musician. Thereupon Georg and his parents, the princes of Hohenau, leave the hall with a sniff. Marika wants to save the situation and asks one of those present to dance with her to the Langer music. Marika is then complimented out of the hall by the old Prince Hohenau. The social scandal is perfect. Josef Langer returns home, dejected and desperate. There he learns that Ludwig van Beethoven , who enjoys a high reputation at the imperial court in Vienna, has just composed a waltz, which was received extremely benevolently. With this, these wise men have removed themselves from the orbit of Prater-Gaudi and established themselves as recognized music. The other day Marika stands in front of Josef and confesses her love to him. He explains to her that there was never anything with Liesl and that he only had feelings for her, Marika.
Production notes
Highness dances the waltz was created in the Barrandov studios in Prague and was first shown in Austria on December 25, 1935. In view of the greater participation of Jews in this film, Highness was not allowed to dance the waltz in Hitler's Germany.
Artur Berger designed the film structures. Leo Ascher also used Beethoven's compositions in his film music.
From Highness Dances Waltz , a Czech and a French version were produced. While the same artists were in front of the camera in the Czech version as in the German version, the French version featured such renowned actors as Renée Saint-Cyr , Jean Servais , Pierre Brasseur and Wera Baranowskaja . Max Neufeld directed these versions as well.
music
The following music tracks were played:
- The Lercherl from Hernals
- Hüaho, old white horse, hüaho
- I love you as you love me
Reviews
The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “On the basis of a cleverly structured script… Max Neufeld staged a film that is characterized by music, mood and humor to a large extent. The flattering music of the operetta was supplemented with other songs. "
On film.at it says: “A Viennese film straight out of a textbook - and not yet distorted by the endless recapitulations of the 1950s. (...) A surprisingly buzzing piece of (exile) Vienna cinema: Neufeld staged an excess of show values in the Barrandov Studios, which is quite untypical for his work, where the masses jostle at the Heuriger or the crane just a candle-degree vertical ride of the she makes a sheer spectacle for the sake of an elaborate movement - all of this, but within the framework of a relatively tightly built script that leaves no room for the kind of exuberance and dangling, expansions and shortages from which Neufeld otherwise makes his artistic capital. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Your Highness Dances the Waltz". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , December 27, 1935, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Your Highness waltzes on film.at
Web links
- Highness waltzes in the Internet Movie Database (English)