Oh… Rosalinda!

In what is likely the most ingenious Fledermaus adaptation, Powell and Pressburger move the action to Vienna in 1955, where Dr. Falke becomes an elegant black-market dealer whose cunning plan for revenge on the French Colonel Eisenstein reaches its climax at a masked ball. Diplomatic disputes and spirited jokes meet explosively colorful decorative excesses—a step toward modern cinema. To begin: a conducting duel between cat and mouse.
(Florian Widegger)

Sun 14 Dec: With an introduction by Brigitte Mayr