Masquerade in Vienna
27/09/1934
After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.
Movie Information
Paula Wessely
as Leopoldine Dur
Anton Walbrook
as Heideneck
Peter Petersen
as Carl Ludwig Harrandt
Walter Janssen
as Paul Harrandt
Olga Tschechowa
as Anita Keller
Hilde von Stolz
as Gerda
Julia Serda
as M.
Hans Moser
as Zacharias
Fritz Imhoff
as
Poldi Dur
as
Grete Natzler
as
Liesl Handl
as (uncredited)
Josephine Rudiger
as Krankenschwester (uncredited)
Enrico Caruso
as Self (archive sound) (voice)
