Emperor Waltz (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kaiserwalzer |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Franz Antel Jutta Bornemann Gunther Philipp Friedrich Schreyvogel |
| production | Erich von Neusser |
| music | Hans Lang |
| camera | Hans Heinz Theyer |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
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Kaiserwalzer is an Austrian feature film by Franz Antel from 1953. The main roles are cast with Willy Danek , Maria Holst , Rudolf Prack , Gunther Philipp and Winnie Markus as well as Pepi Glöckner and Hans Holt .
action
Lieutenant Zauner, Archduke Ludwig's adjutant , once again used his boss's car to visit his girlfriend, the dancer Anni Wührer, at the imperial opera. She is disappointed that Zauner does not want to take her to Ischl on her imperial vacation and travels on her own.
In Ischl, Ludwig met the teacher Luise Pichler when she and her students sang the version of the Kaiserwalzer set to music for the first time by teacher Resinger . Ludwig falls in love with Luise and, since he is in civilian clothes, pretends to be Lieutenant Zauner. Both meet several times and also meet Captain Krause from Berlin on the mountain pasture. In addition, Empress Elisabeth appears on the mountain pasture and the children sing her the imperial waltz. Elisabeth invites Luise and the children to perform the Kaiserwalzer on the Emperor's birthday. Ludwig watched the encounter from a hiding place.
Meanwhile, in Ischl, the enthusiastic confectioner Zauner became aware of Mizzi, the daughter of confectioner Bachmaier. He helps her with a pistachio cream preparation, and they both get closer when Anni appears in the pastry shop and catches Zauner. Through Captain Krause, Anni also believes that Zauner is cheating on her with a teacher. Anni complains to Archduke Ludwig about Zauner, and he asks her to keep quiet. For her secrecy, she was promised a job as a solo dancer in the ballet.
Entanglements arise when Zauner gives Mizzi an engagement ring and Luise believes that Ludwig has become engaged. Only when Ludwig and Anni meet and Anni does not recognize him does Luise believe in Ludwig's innocence again. The court ends his vacation and Ludwig travels back to Vienna. Luise's aunt Anna Riegler suspects that her niece is unhappily in love, and believes that it is because of the money: A lieutenant can only marry if he has bought dearly to leave the soldier's position. The aunt therefore sells a meadow to Bachmaier so that Luise can pay Ludwig's deposit. Since there was not enough money, Luise went to Vienna to ask Empress Elisabeth to waive the remaining deposit “for Lieutenant Zauner”. Elisabeth then lets Zauner come to, but he believes Mizzi wanted to pay his bail. Only now does Zauner resolve all misunderstandings, and Elisabeth is concerned that Ludwig will be putting his title at risk because of love, especially since a befitting match has already been found for him with a princess of Saxony. She explains to Luise who Ludwig actually is, and she collapses. However, she asks for a last evening with Ludwig, which Elisabeth grants her. The next day Luise packs her things. She explains to Ludwig, who joins them, that she knew about his true identity from the start. You love another. When Ludwig leaves Luise, Resinger comes to her and takes her back to Ischl. A little later, however, Ludwig dances with a petrified expression to the sounds of the imperial waltz with the Saxon princess.
Back in Ischl, it turns out that a cautious relationship does indeed begin between Luise and Resinger. Both of them hook up to watch the wedding procession of Zauner and Mizzi, who have finally found each other after all the misunderstandings.
production
Franz Antel originally wanted to film the successful Sissy Singspiel , but Ilse Kubaschewski from Gloria Filmverleih was skeptical as to whether a historical love story between a princess and an emperor would be interesting enough for the audience. Instead, she asked for a love story between a princess and a popular man or vice versa. So Antel made up a love story between a duke and a popular girl.
Kaiserwalzer was created in the AFA Graz-Thalerhof studio and in the Ringfilm studio in Vienna. The exterior shots come from Bad Ischl , Graz and Schönbrunn Palace . The film structures were created by Sepp Rothauer and Heinz Ockermüller . The Dia Luca ballet is dancing, the Vienna Boys' Choir sing.
The title goes back to the Kaiser Waltz by Johann Strauss (son) , which can be heard several times in the film.
publication
The film had its premiere on July 24, 1953 in Munich. In Austria it was published on September 10, 1953, in the USA under the title The Emperor Waltz in 1956. It was also published in Hungary under the title Császárkeringö . The good box office results seemed to confirm Kubaschewski's argument. In the following year Antel shot the film Imperial Maneuver with Prack and Markus in the leading roles and other actors from this film . In 1955, however, the producer, author and director Ernst Marischka took up the sissy fabric, which the Gloria boss had rejected to Antel, and created a worldwide success under the title Sissi .
Kaiserwalzer was released on DVD on December 15, 2006 by Studiocanal.
criticism
On the occasion of the premiere of the film, Der Spiegel wrote:
“The bittersweet kuk-Herzensromanze, based on the conflicting scheme of the very first sound film operettas [...] was embedded in green mountain meadows, tirelessly played waltzes and many Schwankerln by director Antel. As Empress Elisabeth a beautiful picture of the ruler's melancholy: Maria Holst. "
For the film service , Kaiserwalzer was a “gentle melodrama with melting waltz music in front of the backdrop of a kitschy old Austria.” Cinema called the film “Heartache that rolls away sweetly and sticky”.
Kino.de spoke of "an [m] Austrian [m] melodrama, set in the fictional ' Sissi ' time, without a happy ending. Director Franz Antel (born 1913) is considered to be the creator of the 'K. u. K. films', which dealt comedically, dramatically, kitsch and musically with the imperial era. ”It was also said that the“ eponymous waltz [was] one of the most beautiful by Johann Strauss Sohn ”.
Web links
- Kaiserwalzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kaiserwalzer at filmportal.de
- Kaiserwalzer title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 1997 (in the picture: Rudolf Prack, Winnie Markus, Maria Holst)
- Kaiserwalzer (1953) see section on the film adS sissi-sammlung.de
- Kaiserwalzer full movie
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 83 f.
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 342
- ↑ Kaiserwalzer Fig. DVD case Studiocanal / Kinowelt
- ↑ New in Germany: Kaiserwalzer . In: Der Spiegel , No. 33, 1953, p. 33.
- ↑ Kaiserwalzer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kaiserwalzer See cinema.de, accessed on September 20, 2018.
- ↑ Kaiserwalzer sS kino.de, accessed on September 20, 2018.
