''Emperor's Ball'' () is a 1956 Austrian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Franz Antel
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the ...
and starring
Sonja Ziemann,
Rudolf Prack and
Hannelore Bollmann. The film is part of a cycle of films set during the old
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consist ...
.
[Kapczynski & Richardson p.122] It was shot in
Agfacolor
Agfa-Farbenplatte of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1933.
An Agfacolor slide of a café in Oslo, Norway, 1937.
An Agfacolor slide of Paris, France, 1937.
An Agfacolor slide of Stockholm, Sweden, 1938.
An Agfacolor slide, Hungary, 1938.
An Agf ...
with sets designed by
Otto Pischinger.
Cast
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Sonja Ziemann as Franzi
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Rudolf Prack as Reichsgraf Georg von Hohenegg
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Hannelore Bollmann as Prinzessin Christine
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Maria Andergast
Maria Andergast (4 June 1912 – 14 February 1995) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1934 and 1974.
Selected filmography
* ''The Prodigal Son'' (1934)
* '' Last Stop'' (1935)
* '' My Life for Maria Isabella'' (19 ...
as Fürstin zu Schenckenberg
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Jane Tilden
Jane Tilden, born as Marianne Wilhelmine Tuch, (1910–2002) was an Austrian actress who enjoyed a long career on stage and in films and television shows. She was born as Marianne Tuch in Aussig, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was ...
as Gräfin Reichenbach
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Ilse Peternell as Direktrice
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Bully Buhlan as Graf Baranyi
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Hans Olden
Hans Olden (1892–1975) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Olden appeared in more than eighty films during his career, mostly in Austria but occasionally also in Germany. He was a supporter of the Austrian Nazi Party, his interest in Nazism ...
as Erzherzog Benedikt
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Rolf Olsen as Jean Müller
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Paul Löwinger as Portier Bichler
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Thomas Hörbiger
Thomas Hörbiger (1931–2011) was a German film actor and lyricist. He was the son of the actor Paul Hörbiger. His daughter is the actress Mavie Hörbiger. Hörbiger co-wrote Austria's winning entry at the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest, which ...
as Willi
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C.W. Fernbach as Offizier
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Raoul Retzer as Kriminalkommissär
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Hans Moser as Portier Rienössl
References
Bibliography
* Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Michael D. Richardson. ''A New History of German Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2014.
External links
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1956 films
1950s historical comedy-drama films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Franz Antel
Films set in the 1900s
Films scored by Johannes Fehring
Films scored by Hans Lang
Films scored by Lotar Olias
Austrian historical comedy-drama films
German-language historical films
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