Maskerade (also known as Maskerade in Wien, English: Masquerade or Masquerade in Vienna), is an Austrian operetta film, and a classic of German language cinema. The exceptional script of this, one of the great examples 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, the Austrian premiere in Vienna not until 26 September of the same year.
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Maskerade (also known as Maskerade in Wien, English: Masquerade or Masquerade in Vienna), is an Austrian operetta film, and a classic of German language cinema. The exceptional script of this, one of the great examples 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, the Austrian premiere in Vienna not until 26 September of the same year.
The film is set in Viennese high society of about 1900. After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt (Hilde von Stolz), wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt (Peter Petersen), allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick (Adolf Wohlbrück) to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller (Olga Tschechowa), in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt (Walter Janssen), the brother of Gerda's husband. The picture is published in the newspaper...
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