Die Pratermizzi
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Directed by | Gustav Ucicky |
Written by | Walter Reisch |
Produced by | Alexander Kolowrat |
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Distributed by | Sascha-Film |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
Country | Austria |
Language | German |
Die Pratermizzi(literally, "Mizzi of thePrater") is anAustriansilentdrama filmdirected byGustav Ucickyin 1926, released in January 1927, and starringAnny Ondra,Igo SymandNita Naldi.The film was long believed lost until its rediscovery in 2005. The film'sart directionwas byArtur BergerandEmil Stepanek.This was the last major film role of Nita Naldi, whose career did not survive the advent of the talkies.
Plot
[edit]Marie, a cashier in thetunnel of loveZum Walfisch[1]on the Prater inVienna,and Baron Christian von B. fall in love, but their relationship is disrupted by the willful involvement of the dancer Valette, who always wears a mask. Christian eventually follows Valette to Paris. When he tears the golden mask from her face he is shocked to discover that she is disfigured by a disease. He returns to Vienna with the intention of putting an end to his life, but at the last minute Marie is able to save him.
The ride through the tunnel of love is associated in this film with the journey into one's own self.
Cast
[edit]- Igo Symas Freiherr Christian von B.
- Anny Ondraas Marie
- Nita Naldias Valette, the dancer with the mask
- Hedy Pfundmayr as the dancer's double
- Carl Götzas Herr von Z.
- Ferdinand Leopoldias Adam Lorenz Stingl, owner of the tunnel of love
- Hugo Thimigas Matthias Veitschberger
History of the film
[edit]In 2005 a print of thePratermizzion a base of the inflammablecellulose nitratewas discovered in the archives of theCentre national de la cinématographie.It was successfully copied and restored in time to be shown at the opening of Prater Film Festival the same year.
Excerpts from the film were published by theFilmarchiv Austriaon the DVD "Der Wiener Prater im Film" in July 2005.[2]
References
[edit]- ^German:Grottenbahn;theZum Walfischwas a real feature on the Prater of the time.
- ^"Deutschland auf der Leinwand - Der Prater (1942) - DVD: Filmarchiv Austria".Online Film Database.23 November 2008.Retrieved5 April2024.
Sources and external links
[edit]- PratermizziatIMDb
- Österreichisches Filmarchiv(in German)
- Stummfilm.at(in German)
- 1927 films
- 1926 films
- 1926 drama films
- Austrian black-and-white films
- Austrian silent feature films
- Austrian drama films
- Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
- Films set in Vienna
- Wiener Film
- 1920s rediscovered films
- 1927 drama films
- Rediscovered Austrian films
- Silent romantic comedy films
- Silent drama films
- 1920s German films
- 1920s German-language films