Victor and Victoria
- Renate Müller: Susanne Lohr / Count Viktoria
- Hermann Thimig: Actors Viktor Hempel
- Adolf Wohlbrück: Robert
- Hilde Hildebrand: Ellinor
- Fritz Odemar: Douglas
- Friedel Pisetta: Number Girl Lilian
- Aribert Wascher: Theater Agent F. A. Punkertin
- Raffles Bill: vaudeville artists
- Henry Lorenzen: Hairdresser
- Trude Lehmann: nurse
- Rudolf Platte
- Ewald Wenck
Viktor und Viktoria is a German comedy film from the year 1933. Directed by Reinhold Schünzel, the film stars Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig and Adolf Wohlbrück.
Action
Viktor Hempel is a bit player, but feels to higher roles, for example Hamlet, cite. While auditioning in a theatrical agency, his comic talent turns out. He falls through because he has a serious role represented unintentionally funny. Viktor learns which also rejected singer Susanne Lohr know, and the two become friends.
When Victor falls ill and his appearance is at risk than women impersonator " Monsieur Victoria " in a cabaret, Susanne 's in it for him. She is a star, and a tour leads them to London soon. There Susanne comes in evening dress in women particularly well. But then she meets Robert, who is regarded as " London's most famous connoisseur of women ." Robert does not want to believe that it is " Monsieur Victoria " is a man, and thinks masculinity samples for him / her out. Finally, Viktor Hempel itself must step in as "Victoria" in a revue, so Susanne and Robert can find each other.
Awards
- The Board of Film gave Viktor Viktoria and the title of " artistic ".
Criticism
- Lexicon of international film ( 1987 edition, p 4137 ): The Reinhold Schünzel staged with charm and wit Musical is one of the most sophisticated entertainment films of the Ufa to 1933: light entertainment par excellence.
- Protestant observers movie ( criticism No 412/ 1970): The film is full of music and humor, despite his age, hardly lost some of its entertainment value.
- Film-Kurier, 1933: A slightly exhilarating, musical play, the musical, such as dialog moderately brings the balance of the scenes so magnificently expressed.
More films
The story was re- filmed several times. Reinholf Schünzel turned himself in 1933, a French-language version under the title Georges et Georgette. The first English-language version was created in 1935 in the United Kingdom, directed by Victor Saville and was entitled First a Girl. In 1957, in the Federal Republic of Germany a remake under the title Viktor and Viktoria with Joan of Koczian, Georg Thomalla and Johannes Heesters in the lead roles; Directed by Karl Anton.
The best-known version of the substance created in 1982 Blake Edwards with the British-American feature film Victor / Victoria and Julie Andrews, Robert Preston and James Garner in the lead roles. Edwards turned a 1995 TV version of the comedy turn, with his wife Julie Andrews in the title role.