Masquerade in Vienna

Masquerade in Vienna (1934)

Maskerade

A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.

Date of release
1934-09-27
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Willi Forst

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Vienna

Maskerade, is an Austrian operetta film, and a classic of German language cinema. The exceptional script of this, a great example of the genre of the Wiener Film, was by Walter Reisch and Willi Forst, who also directed. The German premiere was held in Berlin on 21 August 1934, followed by the Austrian premiere in Vienna on 26 September of the same year.

Production

Since the microphones of the period were not very sensitive, they had to be brought as close to the performers as possible. Because of the visible shadows that the microphones would have cast under the intense lighting of the film sets they had to be hidden in many scenes behind all sorts of objects such as armchairs, bookshelves and vases.

Essential to the visual success of the film was the contribution of the virtuoso of the film camera of 1930s Austria, Franz Planer, with his lively and beautifully lit compositions. The sets were the creation of Oskar Strnad, a great name of the contemporary Austrian art scene and lecturer at the School of Commercial Art (Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule, now the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien), assisted by Emil Stepanek.

Willy Schmidt-Gentner composed the score. The declared production costs were 863,539,45 Austrian schillings.

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