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.
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). KDN-A 2641,0 m is preserved in the ARCHIVES DU FILM du C. N. C., Bois d´Arcy.
Marie-Claire
kněžna
kníže Georges
Pierre Kramer
kníže de Hohenau
Lisa
Sophie
komtesa Labowiska
Haslinger
Dinbelli
hostinský
Salina
Alfred Grünwald (Hoheit tanzt Walzer – opereta), Julius Brammer (Hoheit tanzt Walzer – opereta)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Leo Ascher, Joseph Lanner, Johann Strauss st.
Taneček panny Márinky [francouzská verze]
Taneček panny Márinky [francouzská verze]
Márinka's Dance [French version]
Valse éternelle
Výsost tančí valčík
film
featuretheatrical distribution
operetta
Czechoslovakia
1935
1935
date of censorship nepředloženo cenzuře
start of filming 11 September 1935 (ateliéry)
end of filming 25 October 1935 (ateliéry)
premiere neproběhla
premiere abroad 3 April 1936 (Paříž, Francie)
feature film
93 min
2 641 meters
35mm
1:1,19
black & white
sound
Tobis – Klang
French
French
without subtitles
French
