Márinka's Dance [German version]
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1935Production year
1935Premiere
30 January 1936Runtime
92 minDirector
Max NeufeldCategory
filmGenre
operettaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Taneček panny Márinky [německá verze]Czech title
Taneček panny Márinky [německá verze]English title
Márinka's Dance [German version]Parallel title
Hoheit tanzt WalzerWorking title
Výsost tančí valčíkSynopsis
The waltz is a novelty and the craze is beginning to spread. The nobility still looks down on it as a contemptible entertainment for commoners. Band leader Josef Langer is having enormous success with his waltzes in Prater park, Vienna. But it's not just the urban middle classes who are addicted to the dance: many high-born ladies also like to whirl the night away, incognito. One such is princess Marie who is irresistibly attracted not only by the waltz but also the waltz master Langer. But Marie is engaged to prince Georg - who does not intend to lose her. After several intrigues Marie stops seeing Langer, but when he plays for Countess Lubovská she again falls under the spell of the music and she dances, causing a scandal. Langer leaves the soirée but learns that Beethoven is residing at that very house and is himself composing a waltz. Langer's art thus at last becomes respectable, and the film's happy ending comes about to the sound of Beethoven's immortal waltz Ich liebe dich.
Note
The film, produced at Barrandov, was only made in its German and French version. According to the Catalogue of Full-Length French Films 1929–1939 a Czech version was also made by the same director with the cast Andula Sedláčková, Václav Vydra snr., Karel Jičínský and Růžena Šlemrová. However, this is a confusion with the film The Doctor's Secret (1930).
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Cast
Hans Homma
kníže Franz von Hohenau
Anna Kallina
kněžna Agnes, Franzova žena
André Mattoni
princ Georg, syn Franze a Agnes
Maria Balcerkiewicz
hraběnka Lubowska
Irén Ágay
princezna Marie zvaný Marika
Hans Jaray
kapelník Josef Langer
Alexander Fischer-Marich
opisovač not Hofer
Phillis Fehr
Liesl, Hoferova dcera
Camilla Spira
Eugen Neufeld
Sylvia de Bettini
Bohdan Lachman
pán v parku
F. X. Mlejnek
divák na koncertě
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Alfred Grünwald (Hoheit tanzt Walzer – opereta), Julius Brammer (Hoheit tanzt Walzer – opereta)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Cooperation
Willy Ströminger (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Selected Music
Ludwig van Beethoven, Leo Ascher, Joseph Lanner, Johann Strauss st.
Music Performed by
Songs
Ich liebe Dich
Singer Irén Ágaysbor
Mein Herz
Singer Hans Jaray
Production info
Original Title
Taneček panny Márinky [německá verze]
Czech Title
Taneček panny Márinky [německá verze]
English Title
Márinka's Dance [German version]
Parallel Title
Hoheit tanzt Walzer
Working Title
Výsost tančí valčík
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
operetta
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1935
Production Year
1935
Production specifications
start of filming 11 September 1935 (ateliéry)
end of filming 25 October 1935 (ateliéry)
date of censorship 12/1935
withdrawal from distribution 04/1940
Premiere
premiere abroad 25 December 1935 (Vídeň, Rakousko)
premiere 30 January 1936 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Alfa /2 týdny/, Praha)
Production
With support
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
92 min
Original length in metres
2 600 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,19
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
Tobis – Klang
Versions
German
Dialogue languages
German
Subtitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
German
