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'Die Pratermizzi' (literally, "Mizzi of the Prater") is an Austrian silent drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky in 1926, released in January 1927, and starring Anny Ondra, Igo Sym and Nita Naldi. The film was long believed lost until its rediscovery in 2005. The film's art direction was by Artur Berger and Emil Stepanek.

Plot



Marie, a cashier in the tunnel of love 'Zum Walfisch'; the 'Zum Walfisch' was a real feature on the Prater of the time. on the Prater in Vienna, 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



*Igo Sym as Freiherr Christian von B.

*Anny Ondra as Marie

*Nita Naldi as Valette, the dancer with the mask

*Hedy Pfundmayr as the dancer's double

*Carl Gtz as Herr von Z.

*Ferdinand Leopoldi as Adam Lorenz Stingl, owner of the tunnel of love

*Hugo Thimig as Matthias Veitschberger

This was the last major film role of Nita Naldi, whose career did not survive the advent of the talkies.

History of the film



In 2005 a print of the 'Pratermizzi' on a base of the inflammable cellulose nitrate was discovered in the archives of the 'Centre national de la cinmatographie'. 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 the Filmarchiv Austria on the DVD "Der Wiener Prater im Film" in July 2005.[http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fassung&fid=160681&vid=257879 www.ofdb.de Online Film Database], entry of 23 November 2008, retrieved 24 February 2009)

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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100118224157/http://www.filmarchiv.at/show_content2.php?s2id=148 sterreichisches Filmarchiv]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090510061152/http://www.stummfilm.at/content/view/127/111/ Stummfilm.at]

Category:1926 films

Category:1927 films

Category:1926 drama films

Category:Austrian black-and-white films

Category:Austrian silent feature films

Category:Austrian drama films

Category:Films directed by Gustav Ucicky

Category:Films set in Vienna

Category:Wiener Film

Category:1920s rediscovered films

Category:1927 drama films

Category:Rediscovered Austrian films

Category:Silent romantic comedy films

Category:Silent drama films

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