Viktor and Viktoria (1933)

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Movie
Original title Viktor and Viktoria
Viktor and Viktoria 1933 Logo 001.svg
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Reinhold Schünzel
script Reinhold Schünzel
production Eduard Kubat ,
Alfred Zeisler ,
Erich Pommer
music Franz Doelle
camera Konstantin Tschet ,
Werner Bohne
cut Arnfried Heyne
occupation

and: Ernst Behmer , Karl Harbacher , Henry Lorenzen , Trude Lehmann , Rudolf Platte , Ewald Wenck , Gertrud Wolle

Viktor und Viktoria is a German comedy film from 1933. It was directed by Reinhold Schünzel , and Renate Müller , Hermann Thimig and Adolf Wohlbrück played the leading roles .

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Viktor Hempel is a minor actor who feels called to higher roles like Hamlet . When auditioning in a theater agency, his comic talent is revealed. He fails because he involuntarily portrayed a serious role in a funny way. Viktor meets the singer Susanne Lohr, who has also been rejected, and the two become friends. When Viktor fell ill and his appearance as a lady impersonator "Monsieur Viktoria" in a cabaret was in danger, Susanne took over for him. Her performance proves to be successful and the theater agent Punkertin - who thinks she is a man - signs Susanne on the spot. Now she has to dress up permanently as "Monsieur Viktoria" while Viktor accompanies her.

The tour proves successful and soon takes Victoria to London . There, Susanne in her tailcoat is particularly popular with women. But then she meets Robert, who is considered "London's most famous connoisseur of women". Robert doesn't want to believe that "Monsieur Viktoria" is a man because he feels strangely attracted to her. A little later Robert accidentally overhears a conversation between Viktor and Susanne, so that he can discover their secret. He thinks up masculinity tests for Susanne, for example visiting a bar and smoking cigarettes. Susanne finds it difficult to continue to credibly maintain her male role because she has fallen in love with Robert. A bouquet of flowers makes the jealous Susanne think that Robert wants to marry the elegant lady Ellinor.

Meanwhile Viktor Hempel thinks that he has to fight a pistol duel with Robert's friend Douglas and is therefore considering suicide. He also makes love advances to blonde number girl Lilian in a rather clumsy way. When Susanne finally gives up her female role as "Monsieur Viktoria" out of love for Robert, Viktor himself has to step in as "Viktoria" in a revue to avert a breach of contract. Viktor's performance turns into a complete success thanks to his involuntary comedy. Robert and Susanne as well as Viktor and Lilian become couples.

Production notes

The film was produced by Universum-Film AG Berlin under the production management of Alfred Zeisler between September and November 1933 and premiered on December 23, 1933 in the Gloria-Palast ( Berlin ).

Awards

reception

The contemporary press was enthusiastic about the film. Even the Völkischer Beobachter described the film as “sparklingly staged” and “a resounding success”. The Film-Kurier wrote "A slightly lively, musical game that expresses the balance of the scenes musically and dialogically in a very excellent way."

A few decades later , the lexicon of international films considered the film to be one of the "most cultivated entertainment films made by Ufa after 1933: light muse par excellence". The Protestant film observer believes that Viktor and Viktoria is a "film full of music and humor, (which) has hardly lost any of its entertainment value despite its age".

Further films

The story has been rematched several times. Reinholf Schünzel himself shot a French-language version in 1933 under the title Georges et Georgette . The first English-language version was written in the United Kingdom in 1935, directed by Victor Saville, and was entitled First a Girl . In 1957 a remake was made in the Federal Republic of Germany under the title Viktor and Viktoria with Johanna von Koczian , Georg Thomalla and Johannes Heesters in the leading roles; Directed by Karl Anton .

The best-known version of the material was created by Blake Edwards in 1982 with the British-American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film Victor / Victoria and Julie Andrews , Robert Preston and James Garner in the leading roles. Edwards also made a TV version of the comedy in 1995 , again with his wife Julie Andrews in the title role.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Völkischer Beobachter quoted from Uwe Klöckner-Draga, Renate Müller - Your life a tightrope act, Evelyne Kern, 2006, p. 60, ISBN 978-3939478423
  2. ↑ quoted from Manfred Hobsch: Liebe, Tanz und 1000 Schlagerfilme , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin, 1998, p. 86
  3. ↑ Lexicon of International Films (1987 edition, p. 4137)
  4. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 412/1970

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