Masquerade in Vienna

Masquerade in Vienna

90 mins | Comedy, Romance | Sept. 27, 1934

After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.

Masquerade in Vienna

90 mins | Comedy, Romance | Sept. 27, 1934

Masquerade in Vienna
After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Sascha-Verleih, Tobis Filmkunst
Original title Maskerade
Directors Willi Forst
Writers Willi Forst, Walter Reisch

Cast

Paula Wessely

as Leopoldine Dur

Adolf Wohlbrück

as Der Zeichner Heideneck

Peter Petersen

as Professor Carl Ludwig Harrandt

Walter Janssen

as Paul Harrandt, Hofopernkapellmeister

Olga Tschechowa

as Anita Keller - die Braut des Einen

Hilde von Stolz

as Gerda - die Frau des Anderen

Julia Serda

as Die Fürstin M.

Hans Moser

as Zacharias, der Gärtner