Queen's Girl Years (1954)
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| Original title | A queen's girl years |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Ernst Marischka |
| script | Ernst Marischka |
| production | Erma film (Ernst Marischka) |
| music | Anton Profes |
| camera | Bruno Mondi |
| cut | Hermann Leitner |
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A Queen's Girl Years is an Austrian film from 1954 by Ernst Marischka . In this film, a remake of Marischka 's 1936 production of the same name, based on the 1932 comedy by Sil-Vara , Romy Schneider portrays the young Queen Victoria . The film shows how the still-to-be-raised child becomes Queen of Great Britain , and how she falls in love with her cousin Albert , whom she eventually marries as her adviser had planned for her.
action
The character of Viktoria is portrayed as extremely playful and lovely, she embodies an inquisitive, curious and intelligent girl, but also the vulnerable young woman who only learns very late that she will one day become Queen of Great Britain. Nevertheless, she wants to do her job well, which she succeeds. But when it is suggested to her that she should get married, she wants to take a horse-drawn carriage to Paris to look at “objects of comparison” there. However, it begins to rain heavily in the port city of Dover , and so the Queen takes a break with her butler and her confidante at a restaurant where Prince Albert of Saxony-Coburg happens to be. The two get to know each other and each do not know who they really are. So it happens that they fall in love. Viktoria, however, has to go back to London the next morning to choose a husband for her birthday party. Albert, who actually didn't want to take part in the party, is persuaded by his advisor. So he still accepts Victoria's invitation. Completely surprised, he sees that the queen is the girl with whom he made fun of the new regent last night. However, one is not surprised when the two finally say yes.
background
Ernst Marischka originally intended Sonja Ziemann to play the lead role for the remake of his 1936 film . At a meal in the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Munich , Magda Schneider introduced him to her daughter Romy, and Marischka decided without further ado to give her the role of the young queen.
Peter Weck came as one of the unsuccessful marriage applicants to one of his first film appearances. The film was shot in Sievering's studios , the outdoor shots were taken in Vienna and the surrounding area. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff created the film structures, Karl Ehrlich was the production manager.
The premieres were on December 16, 1954 in Cologne and on December 28, 1954 in Vienna. The film distribution took place through the Herzog-Film GmbH, from 1958 through the UFA -Filmverleih GmbH. The Walt Disney rental company Buena Vista took over the distribution of an English dubbed version in the USA in 1958 .
The film can be viewed as a kind of forerunner of the Sissi films with the same leading actress in a similar role and the same director with the same style: Biography about a ruler, romance and costume film . Even one of the pieces of music is played in a similar place as in Sissi . Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise op. 40 No. 1 can be heard in the scene in which the unsuspecting Prince Albert enters the audience hall. And the prince recognizes his queen and in Sissi the emperor his Elisabeth.
Awards
- Predicate valuable from the FBL
- Demonstration at the III. International Film Festival of Punta del Este
Reviews
- "A cheerful, contemplative, slightly sentimental film fairy tale." - Lexicon of international film
- "In this upright sentimental variant, director Marischka [...] obviously prepared together with the cameraman of the 1936 film Bruno Mondi Romy Schneider for the three" Sissy "films that Mondi also shot." (Rating: 2 out of 4 stars = average ) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 528
- “A cheerful, contemplative game […]. Amiable and clean; pleasant colors. From 14. “- 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 279
- “A naive film about Queen Victoria of England, poor in spirit, but rich in people and colors, attractive by Romy Schneider's naturalness. Those who are prone to royal splendor will not be bored (from 14). ”- Protestant film observer
Web links
- Victoria in Dover in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Girls' years of a queen at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Marischka: Always smile , Amalthea , 2001, p. 282 f.
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 445 f.
- ↑ A Queen's Girlhood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 23/1955