Opera Ball (1956)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Opera Ball |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ernst Marischka |
| script | Ernst Marischka |
| production |
Karl Ehrlich for Erma, Vienna |
| music | Richard Heuberger |
| camera | Bruno Mondi |
| cut | Alfred Srp |
| occupation | |
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Opernball is an Austrian mix-up comedy by Ernst Marischka from 1956 .
action
There is an opera ball in Vienna and so all sorts of men with different excuses come to Georg Dannhauser's place in Vienna so that they can take part in the ball unnoticed by their wives. Paul Hollinger has come to his friend Georg's with his wife Helene and pretends to be in town on business. Eduard von Lamberg, Georg's uncle, faked an illness in order to be able to see a doctor in Vienna, but actually wants to use the time for the ball. And Georg himself also wants to pretend work, because his secret lover Mizzi wants to take part in the ball with him.
However, since Mizzi keeps calling the villa, Georg's wife Elisabeth suspects that her husband is having an affair. She forges a plan with Paul's wife Helene: Both write each other's spouse an anonymous letter in which they arrange to meet them at the ball. The hallmark is a pink dress. If both of them come to the ball and the agreed meeting point, both women know that their husbands are unfaithful to them. Georg, however, is warned by his servant that the women are trying to fool them, and now wants to fool his wife, especially since he wanted to play a prank with the maid Hanni Paul anyway. Paul had once wanted to pair Georg up with a supposed noble lady who turned out to be a simple girl. He sounded that such a mistake would never happen to him, and so Georg would like his maid Hanni to write a letter to Paul and meet him at the opera ball - the hallmark: pink dress. However, Hanni decides to write the letter to the composer Richard Stelzer. He is Helene's former boyfriend and is in Vienna for work.
Georg prepares everything in the opera. He sends his uncle Eduard to Mizzi as a substitute. Georg organizes a lodge for Paul, whom he believes together with Hanni. In reality, Elisabeth is with him - wearing a mask. Helene is disappointed when she sees the two disappear into a box. Richard meets her, they both withdraw. Georg meets the veiled Hanni, who has previously swapped the ball wardrobe, takes her for his wife and goes with her to his box.
Head waiter Anton Hatschek always brings Georg the latest news from the two boxes and Georg encourages him to give Paul a Tokaj to loosen him up. He wants to force an affair between Paul and the supposed Hanni, but has to realize that Hanni is sitting in his box with him. Just as she is hugging him very lively, Elisabeth takes a look into Georg's box and thinks Hanni is Helene. Elisabeth now gives herself to Paul. Eduard's tipsy wife, Hermine, finally meets Richard and Helene in the hotel, who she immediately sends home. Then she dances and sings to Stelzer.
Georg has to recognize that Paul was with Elisabeth and challenges him to a duel . Eduard in turn catches Hermione with Richard and challenges the musician to a duel. While Philipp is cleaning the pistols, Elisabeth learns from Hanni that she and not Helene was with Georg and kissed him drunk. Elisabeth and Helene are reconciled and now rush to the Hotel Sacher , where they prevent the duels. Next year everyone will meet again at the Opera Ball.
production
Opera ball is based on motifs from the operetta Der Opernball by Richard Heuberger . Various songs can be heard in the film, including Today is Carnival , Come with me to the chambre séparée and When I dream, I only dream of you . The film had its premiere on August 30, 1956 in the Gloria in Stuttgart.
Géza von Bolváry has already directed a film version of this operetta, Opernball (1939) .
In this new edition Theo Lingen and Hans Moser took over the roles they played in 1939 again. Furthermore, film director Franz Marischka brought together the avant-garde of German sound film from Hertha Feiler to Johannes Heesters , Sonja Ziemann and Adrian Hoven . The remake was shot in color and had a screening time of 107 minutes, in the cut version 95 minutes. The aspect ratio was 1:37.
Until the end of the 1990s, the strip was considered lost. Then, by chance, a positive copy was found in a demolished Munich residential building and, subsequently, a negative copy that had long been believed lost in the Austrian Film Museum. The Kirch Group had the film digitally restored by the company's own Taurus film company, which took five months of detailed work, at a cost of around 50,000 euros. The fully restored film was first broadcast on television (ORF2) on February 18, 1998.
criticism
The film-dienst wrote: “The amorous mess is staged rather stiffly this time. Despite popular actors, the film does not develop any charm. "
Web links
- Opera Ball in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Opera ball at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opera Ball. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .