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The Emperor's Candlesticks (1936 film)

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'The Emperor's Candlesticks' (German: 'Die Leuchter des Kaisers') is a 1936 Austrian historical adventure film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Sybille Schmitz, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Friedl Czepa.Von Dassanowsky p.394 It is an adaptation of the 1899 novel 'The Emperor's Candlesticks' by Baroness Orczy. A Hollywood film version of the story 'The Emperor's Candlesticks' was released the following year.

It was shot at Sascha Film's Sievering Studios and Rosenhgel Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth, Werner Schlichting and Emil Stepanek. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin, and a month later in Vienna.

Cast



* Sybille Schmitz as Anna Demidow

* Karl Ludwig Diehl as Georg Wolenski

* Friedl Czepa as Maria

* Inge List as Zofe bei Anna Demidow

* Anton Edthofer as Erzherzog Ludwig

* Max Glstorff as Graf Surowkin

* Johannes Heesters as Grossfrst Peter Alexandrowitsch

* Fritz Rasp as Stanislaus

* Heinrich Schroth as Der Fhrer der Verschworenen

* Jane Tilden as Ein Stubenmdchen

* Hans Unterkircher

* Fritz Imhoff

* Reinhold Hussermann

* Hans Siebert

* Babette Devrient

* Wilhelm Schich

* Dora Seifert

* Otto Storm

* Robert Valberg

* Kurt von Lessen

Reception



Writing for 'The Spectator' in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly good review, summarizing the audience experience as "good direction, fair acting, and the attractively Baker Street dresses make this a pleasant film to doze at." (reprinted in: )

References





Bibliography



* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. 'The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009.

* Von Dassanowsky, Robert. 'Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938'. Indiana University Press, 2018


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