The One and Only [German version]

Country

Czechoslovakia, Germany

Copyright

1937

Production year

1937

Premiere

28 October 1938

Runtime

84 min

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Film state

lost film

Original title

Ze všech jediná [německá verze]

Czech title

Ze všech jediná [německá verze]

English title

The One and Only [German version]

Parallel title

Adresse unbekannt / Eine von allen

Working title

Adresátka neznámá

Synopsis

Young bank clerk Lída Veselá has become quite close to Milan Novák. She does not suspect that in reality he is the Yugoslavian industrialist Milan Bor, who has come to Prague for a conference of financial magnates from the whole world summoned by Mr Brown of London. Sir Brown would like to acquire financial support for his project to construct a railway line from Asia to Europe. Lída is invited to the proceedings as a stenographer, and when she meets Bor there she takes umbrage at his fraud. Bor proposes instead of a railway an air route and the negotiations end for Brown in failure. Pressed for time Milan sends Lída only a short letter and a bracelet as a memento. The offended woman accepts Brown's offer to become his secretary and leaves to travel the world. Bor prepares himself well for a new conference in Dubrovnik and again he has upper hand. Brown would like to preclude his participation at the closing discussion, but his trick does not come off. Lída, who has persistently refused Bor's explanation and has not accepted Bor's marriage proposal as well, leaves for Prague. Milan, however, soon shows up to convince her that she is the one and only for him.

Note

The film materials are believed lost.

Cast

Friedl Czepa /ž/

sekretářka Anja von Krenesch

Claire Fuchs-Kaufmann /ž/

Henriette Chalais

Hertha Feiler /ž/

Mabel Chesterton

Hans Schott-Schöbinger

americký finančník Frank Harris

Ernst Dumcke

sir James Chesterton, otec Mabel

Tibor von Halmay

Tobby Drummond

Auguste Pünkösdy

účastník konference

Mihail Xantho

účastník konference

Viktor Afritsch

účastník konference

Otto Storm

účastník konference

Viktor Braun

účastník konference

Waldemar Born

účastník konference

L. J. Lauterböck

Christa Heinegg /ž/

Leo Siedler

Wiener Bohème-Quartett

Crew and creators

Assistant Director

Ernst Rechenmacher, Fritz Stradner, Gill Sedláčková (adept režie)

Screenstory

Harald Bratt

Director of Photography

Oskar Schnirch

Production Designer

Bohumil Heš

Make-Up Artist

Leopold Kuhnert, Josef Kobík, František Rous

Film Editor

Else Baum /ž/

Sound Designer

Josef Hauptmann

Cooperation

Willy Ströminger (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Jára Beneš

Music Performed by

Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Jára Beneš)

Production info

Original Title

Ze všech jediná [německá verze]

Czech Title

Ze všech jediná [německá verze]

English Title

The One and Only [German version]

Parallel Title

Adresse unbekannt / Eine von allen

Working Title

Adresátka neznámá

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

lost film

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia, Germany

Copyright

1937

Production Year

1937

Production specifications

start of filming 26 July 1937
end of filming 28 August 1937
date of censorship 03/1938

Premiere

premiere abroad 16 August 1938 (Colosseum, Vídeň, Rakousko)
premiere 28 October 1938 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Urania /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere abroad 22 November 1938 (Titania-Palast, Berlín, Německo)

Production

Lloyd (zadavatel), Josef Kabeláč, Th. Czernin

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Lloyd

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

84 min

Original length in metres

2 375 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

black & white

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

German

Dialogue languages

German

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

German