The Royal Waltz (1935 film)

The Royal Waltz
Directed by	Herbert Maisch
Written by	Emil Burri Walter Forster
Produced by	Karl Ritter
Starring	Paul Hörbiger Curd Jürgens Carola Höhn
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by	Eduard von Borsody
Music by	Franz Doelle
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	23 September 1935 (1935-09-23)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Royal Waltz (German: Königswalzer) is a 1935 German musical film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Paul Hörbiger, Curd Jürgens, and Carola Höhn.^{[1] [2]} It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios of UFA in Berlin.^[3] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. A separate French-language version Royal Waltz was also released. It was remade in 1955 under the same title.

Synopsis

In 1852 an Austrian count is sent to Munich to arrange the marriage between his master Emperor Franz Joseph and the Princess Elisabeth, the daughter of the King of Bavaria.

Cast

• Paul Hörbiger as König Max II. von Bayern
• Curd Jürgens as Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich
• Carola Höhn as Herzogin Elisabeth in Bayern, genannt Sisi
• Anton Pointner as Graf Tettenbach, österr. Gesandter in München
• Willi Forst as Graf Ferdinand von Tettenbach, his nephew
• Kurt von Ruffin as Graf Otto Preysing
• Hans Leibelt as Minister Doenniges
• Theodor Danegger as Ludwig Tomasoni, Cafetier
• Heli Finkenzeller as Theres Tomasoni, her daughter
• Ellen Schwanneke as Anni Tomasoni, her sister
• Hugo Schrader as Franz, Konditor bei Tomasoni
• Oskar Sima as Landtagsabgeordneter Pfandl
• Carl Wery as Brandmeyer
• Werner Stock as Ein Student
• Karl Hammes as Singer, Don Juan

References

1. Reimer & Reimer p.151
2. Von Dassanowsky p.81
3. Klaus p.109

Bibliography

• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
• Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. Historical Dictionary of German Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
• Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938. Indiana University Press, 2018
• Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

External links

• The Royal Waltz at IMDb