Only a Comedian (1935)
1h 35m
Running Time
September 2, 1935Release Date
Only a Comedian (1935)
1h 35m
Running Time
September 2, 1935Release Date
Plot.
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance to the sovereign and slips in his role. - Double role for Rudolf Forster who plays his figures very much chilly.
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Cast & Crew.
Rudolf Forster
Herzog Friedrich Theodor / Florian Reiter
Christl Mardayn
Comtesse Beate
Paul Wegener
Staatsminister von Creven
Grit Haid
Minna
Hans Moser
Melchior Pfennig
Erich Engel
Director
Hilde von Stolz
Gräfin Karola von Roedenau
Gretl Bernd
Baronin Denise
Details.
Release DateSeptember 2, 1935
Original Name...nur ein Komödiant
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Wiki.
... nur ein Komödiant (also König der Maske; in English, ... just a Comedian, or King of the Mask) is the title of an Austrian film of 1935. The director was Erich Engel, temporarily in Vienna as a political emigrant from Germany, who with this film made a statement against fascism and authoritarian government. That it passed the strict censors not only of the Third Reich but of Austria can only have been because all political references were veiled by their setting in a royal court of the 18th century.
The premiere took place on 20 September 1935 in the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg. The film went on general release in Germany on 9 October 1935, opening in the Capitol in Berlin, and in Austria on 10 January 1936, opening in Vienna.