I kiss your hand, Madame (1948)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I kiss your hand, madame |
| Original title | The Emperor Waltz |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Billy Wilder |
| script |
Charles Brackett Billy Wilder |
| production | Charles Brackett |
| music | Victor Young |
| camera | George Barnes |
| cut | Doane Harrison |
| occupation | |
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I kiss your hand, Madame , also known as Kaiserwalzer (Original: The Emperor Waltz) , is an American film musical by Billy Wilder from 1948.
action
The American Virgil Smith comes to Vienna under the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to sell his gramophones there. He wants to get Emperor Franz Joseph I to help him with this. The emperor's guards believe his gramophone is a hell machine and throw him out. By chance he meets Countess Johanna von Stolzenberg-Stolzenberg, who has just visited the emperor so that her bitch Sherazade will give offspring to the imperial poodle. First, Virgil's dog buttons and Johanna's pure-bred poodle lady tie together and after a few entanglements, of course, master and mistress fall in love with each other. The emperor is not amused by that, especially not when Sherazade's descendants look a little different than hoped.
background
The film was shot in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada . Billy Wilder was later not at all fond of this film. Basically, he hated musical films because, in his opinion, they were sung without motivation. In the course of his further career he never made a film in this style again. When he then filmed the musical Irma La Douce , he threw out all music titles.
music
Bing Crosby sang the song I Kiss Your Hand, Madame in the film .
German dubbed version
A first German version of I kiss your hand, Madame was created in 1955 by Deutsche Mondial Film GmbH in Berlin. On behalf of ARD , a second dubbed version was made in 1971 at Lingua Film GmbH in Munich, directed by Gert Rabanus , and the dialogue book was written by Robert Riehle . The film was first broadcast on March 24, 1972 on Bayerischer Rundfunk .
| role | actor | Voice actor (1955 version) | Voice actor (1971 version) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Smith | Bing Crosby | Paul Klinger | Pure beauty |
| Johanna Augusta Franziska | Joan Fontaine | Agnes Fink | Johanna Liebeneiner |
| Baron Holenia | Roland Culver | Wolf Ackva | Karl Walter Diess |
| Princess Bitotska | Lucile Watson | Lina Carstens | |
| Emperor Franz-Josef | Richard Haydn | Max Brebeck | Karl Schönböck |
| Dr. zwieback | Sig Ruman | Anton Reimer | |
| Chamberlain | Harold Vermilyea | Werner Lieven |
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1949 in the categories “ Best Costumes in a Color Film ” and “ Best Film Music ” .
Wilder and Brackett were also nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for their script .
literature
- Hellmuth Karasek : Billy Wilder: A close-up . Munich, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07201-4
- Cameron Crowe : Was it fun Mr. Wilder? Diana, 2000, ISBN 3-8284-5031-8
Web links
- I kiss your hand, Madame in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ I kiss your hand, Madame in the German synchronous file , accessed on March 10, 2018
- ↑ I kiss your hand, Madame in Arne Kaul's synchronous database, accessed on May 27, 2019
- ↑ I kiss your hand, madame. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 10, 2018 .