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Retrospective

Maskerade

FromWilli Forst

WithPaula Wessely, Adolf Wohlbrück, Olga Tschechowa, Peter Petersen u.a.

Year1934

Duration99min.

LanguageGerman

At Carnival 1905, painter Ferdinand persuades the married Gerda to pose for him wearing nothing but a muff and a mask. However, the muff belongs to Anita, who is engaged to Gerda's brother-in-law. When the latter sees the picture, he is not amused and confronts Ferdinand. In order not to complicate matters further, the artist quickly invents a name for his ‘unknown’ model - but this invention turns out to be extremely real ...

Slippery, tamed and subtly pointed from the interwar period, one of the greatest successes of the congenial comedy team Forst/Reisch, a blueprint for what is still referred to today as ‘Viennese film’, and a breakthrough for both Wessely (nationally) and Wohlbrück (internationally). (Florian Widegger)