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Mady Christians.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Ein Walzertraum
Also known as The Waltz Dream in the USA
(1925) Austria
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Ludwig Berger
Cast: Willy Fritsch [Nicholas Count Preyn], Mady Christians [Princess Alix], Xenia Desni [Franzi Steingruber], Lydia Potechina [Steffi, Bassistin], Mathilde Sussin [Frl. von Koeckeritz], Karl Beckersachs [Archduke Peter Franz], Julius Falkenstein [Rockhoff von Hoffrock], Hans Brausewetter [der pikkolo], Jakob Tiedtke [Eberhard XXIII von Flausenthurm], Lucie Höflich
Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA] production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Produced by Erich Pommer. Scenario by Norbert Falk and Robert Liebmann, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Strauss, Felix Dormann and Leopold Jacobson based on the novel Nux, der Prinzgemahl by Hans Müller. Art direction by Rudolf Bamberger. Cinematography by Werner Brandes. / Released 18 December 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Finland on 15 March 1926. The film was released in the USA as The Waltz Dream by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [An UFA Production] on 12 September 1926.
Drama.
Synopsis: [The Film Daily, 1 August 1926, page ?] The story tells how Count Preyn is artfully trapped into a marriage with the cold, unemotional princess of Flausenburg. Poor Count Preyn, with his bubbling Viennese disposition, finds himself lost in the cold atmosphere of the Flausenburg court. On his wedding night he rushes away in desperation and finds a pretty Viennese orchestra leader in a cafe. A romance ensues, the girl never suspecting that he is the prince consort. The girl, Franzi, is hired to teach the princess the modern arts in order to win her husband’s love. Right up to the last she is unaware that it is her lover that she is helping to win back for his princess wife.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown) [Austria]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Austria: Vienna
Listing updated: 4 January 2025.
References: Bardèche-History p. 261; FilmYearBook-1926 front endpapers; Kobal-Fifty p. 29 : Website-IMDb.
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