Queen of the Highway
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Queen of the Highway |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Géza from Cziffra |
| production | Loewen-Film, Vienna |
| music |
Hans Elin Anton Profes (Chansons) |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
| occupation | |
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Queen of the Landstrasse is an Austrian feature film from 1948 by Géza von Cziffra with Angelika Hauff and Rudolf Prack in the leading roles.
action
Austria in the 1920s. The attractive Flora Giebel, who performs as an artist and singer under the name “Lulu”, travels through the country with the family-owned Circus Giebel, a simple traveling circus with six horse-drawn carts. Lulu regularly turns the heads of the men around her. One evening when she was performing a lion dressage number, the handsome Baron Michael Dornberg was also in the audience. When Lulu sings, he too is hanging on her lips. Like all the other men, he is fascinated by the mysterious beauty of the black-haired woman, much to the annoyance of her father, the circus director Johannes Giebel. During a ride the next day, Lulu and Michael meet again at a lake. She is sleeping naked in a small grove when the baron discovers her and gently wakes her up. Then they both kiss. Michael calls the traveling circus artist the "Queen of the Road".
The von Dornbergs are a very class-conscious family and are extremely skeptical of any improper relationship, otherwise like the circus people. When Michael is not in the audience at the following performance, Lulu is a little disappointed. She doesn't want to run after him and tells Nellie, her sister, that he will find her if he only wanted to. In fact, he's following her circus. Michael soon confesses his love for her and asks Lulu to live with him on his manor house. But she quickly realizes the impossibility of this dream, because the class differences are too great. She also feels completely connected to the circus world. Her father Johannes also has his doubts whether Lulu can be happy at his side and in his world and expressly tells the baron this when he asks him for her hand. When Michael asks him to keep his circus origins a secret from his blasé family, the ringmaster's collar bursts and he expels Michael from his trailer.
The ringmaster would like to “free” his beloved daughter, who has meanwhile become a baroness, from the clutches of these nobles who think they are better. Even the circus child Lulu, who has now become Flora again, feels extremely uncomfortable among all these rigid and cocky Dornbergs. Above all, the beastly Aunt Michaels makes life difficult for Flora with her demeanor. Flora doesn’t like anything. Winter is coming, spring is coming, and when Flora looks out the window, the circus blood calls in her again, the longing for the country road. She learns from Nellie that both the circus and her father are doing badly. Flora rushes to him and tries to save the show with her appearance. Unfortunately, the von Dornbergs are in the audience. When Michael arrives, the two speak out. Flora, who became Lulu again, makes it clear to him that her world is and will remain the circus. Both part on good terms. With the two remaining two carriages, the tiny traveling circus continues along the country road to the next venue.
Production notes
Queen of the Landstrasse was created in the spring and early summer of 1948 in Vienna and Lower Austria. The premiere took place on October 8, 1948 in Vienna, the German premiere was on September 30, 1949 in Munich.
Carl Hofer took over the production management. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures. Otto Untersalmberger took care of the sound. Hanns Jelinek composed the theme music. The only 20-year-old Karlheinz Böhm served here as an unnamed assistant director.
Queen of the Landstrasse is one of several films set in the circus environment ( Circus Renz , Tromba , Phantom of the Big Tent ) that Angelika Hauff had made in the course of her career.
Reviews
“When MARESI speaks of the aristocracy for whom their values are more important than life (in this case only their favorite horse, but the allegory goes further ...), then KÖNIGIN DER LANDSTRASSE tells us that in the post-war world now finally but also really all social barriers are allowed to fall, and actually must, as in the context of democratization. Géza von Cziffra - the gourmet grand seigneur - understood this new openness to the world in an erotic sense and let Angelika Hauff swim naked among the pond roses. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Irrelevant entertainment film full of clichés."
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at
- ↑ Queen of the Highway. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Queen of the highway in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Queen of the highway at filmportal.de