The Arch-Duke Herr Sixtus especially cares for Arts and particularly for young ballet students. The same is true of the Arch-Duke A.D.C., Herr Count Paul Paladin who shares with the Arch-Duke a special affection for Frau Elisa Jenkins, a young ballet student.
Unexpectedly and thanks to a misunderstanding involving Frau Elisa and the Arch-Duke, the young student will become the new Prima Ballerina of the “Wiener Staatsoper”.
To say that this Herr Graf watched an Austrian silent operetta recently at the Schloss theatre, is certainly an evident and obvious remark, western much as saying that a commoner watched an American silent, a silent Bolshevist propaganda, a French silent romance or an Italian silent film full of divas.
In "The Ballet Archduke: A Viennese game and love of dance" (1926), an Austrian silent romantic operetta In Which You Can watch - besides luxurious indoor scenery featuring Palaces and the Vienna Opera - a love triangle that Involves at Arch -Duke, his adjutant and a young ballerina. Everything is properly filmed by Mr Max Neufeld (eg his use of the traveling camera emphasizing the grandioseness of the Austrian scenery points out his inner artistic intentions). He's an Austrian film director who had an early career as an actor and he possessed a special fondness for those typical Austrian subjects that commoners like so much ... and obviously aristocrats don’t because they don’t like documentaries.
Accordingly, such an Austrian operetta casts the three main characters of the film with performers that play their roles properly: Herr Albert Paulig as an old aristocrat satyr, an Arch-Duke with a particular interest in ballet primadonnas, Frau Dina Gralla as the lively ballerina girl who goes to and fro into the arms of the Arch-Duke and his adjutant, played by Herr Werner Pittschau as a bewildered young Austrian Count.
Unfortunately the film hasn’t any rich and fat old heiress so necessary when aristocrats are around. There is only the presence of the Arch-Duke’s aunt does not provide a good example of the fattening diet that Austrian aristocrats like so much, because eating schnitzels all day it is not, exactly, a piece of cake…
Everyone is settled in elegant and astounding aristocratic indoor settings that are plentiful in Vienna, so in this film the art direction staff didn’t have anything to improve ...or to do. So, meanwhile, during their vacation, the director simply put the camera in front of all of those decadent and majestic settings.
Certainly the Viennese atmosphere helps to develop a predictable and, at the same time, witty and charming story ( in spite of all, this is Austria and the warm essence of decadence is everywhere ). Probably in other wicked hands this would be a more interesting silent film and full of malice. That’s mainly due to the characteristics of the story, the kind that commoners like very much to exaggerate, that is to say, the aristocrat’s carefree and lustful way of life. However, Herr Neufeld displays many virtues with a mixture of irreverence and hilarity. For examples: the Opera divas’ rivalry, the continual misunderstandings involving between the three main characters and the military /love manoeuvres at Mudwitz.
The classic and decadent operetta atmosphere that can be seen in the film is curiously intertwined with the modern 20’s of the last century. That fact at first bewilders the audience watching those Austrian fellows wearing those impeccable uniforms or even the Arch-Duke in civvies in the streets of Vienna! That’s not to forget the down to earth life of Frau Elisa who resides in a modest apartment. There’s a very interesting combination of modest common real life with the luxury and aristocratic Palaces in a witty contrast that Herr Neufeld certainly uses in order to distinguish and mock properly the aristocratic world of decadence. He transmits to the audience a world of fantasy and idealized dreams that only in the silent films can come true. For this reason “Der Balletterzherzog: Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe” is an excellent paradigm of a film operetta.
And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count must continue to rehearsal about dancing on the tips of historical aristocratic toes.
Herr Graf Ferdinand Von
Galicia - / -
Herr Sixtus Archduke shows a special appreciation of the arts and especially for the young aspiring dancers, just as is happening to his assistant, Herr Count Paul Paladin, the which is keen to Frau Elisa Jenkins, one of those young aspiring dancers above. Unexpectedly
thanks to a misunderstanding which are involved both as the young Archduke Elisa, the latter will become the Prima Ballerina of the "Wiener Staatsoper.
Herr Graf say that it has recently been in an operetta theater Schloss Austrian silent, all is certainly an obvious truism, is how to say that a commoner has been one of those silent films of American cowboys, a Bolshevik propaganda film, a work or a romantic French style silent Italian film full of divas.
"Der Balletterzherzog: Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe" (1926), is, indeed, a romantic operetta silent on which you can see, plus luxurious indoor scenarios where you can see the splendor of the palaces and Vienna State Opera, a love triangle starring an Archduke, his assistant and a young dancer, all filmed in a very correct for Her Max Neufeld (only cite the use of traveling highlighting the grandeur of these lavish sets Austrians, as an unequivocal demonstration of his artistic intentions), which in addition to director, also had a silent first stage as an actor, showing a special interest Neufeld Herr, for these typical Austrian issues like so much to commoners and aristocrats obviously not, because the latter do not look like documentaries.
The film features a protagonist whose trio of actors play their characters as identic, Herr Albert Paulig like an old satyr aristocrat Archduke with a special interest Primadonna, Frau Dina Gralla as aspiring dancer pert which moves us into the arms of the Archduke and his puzzled assistant, played by Herr Werner Pittschau it.
Unfortunately, the film does not see any fat and rich heiress, so essential when they are talking about the aristocracy, only shown in the film, the presence of the aunt of Archduke which is not a good example of diet fat, a delight to the Austrian aristocrats, for indeed, be eating all day "schnitzels" serious threat to the most slender figure ...
All actors are located in elegant and stately interior sets such that both abound in Vienna, so the team behind the film art director had nothing to do or improve about, enjoying a vacation while the director just put the camera in front of those decadent and majestic scenery of the Austrian capital.
Viennese atmosphere certainly helps tremendously when developing this story predictable and at the same time, cryptic and charming, because despite everything, this is Austria and the warm scent of decay is everywhere, but probably in other hands much more perverse, the film would be imbued with much more evil due to the special features that has the history of film being the kind of stories that reflects the libidinous and carefree aristocratic life that commoners like too much, anyway, Herr Neufeld shows some virtuosity in his film by mixing a certain irreverence and hilarity, as it happens in sequences as the rivalry between opera divas, the continuing misunderstandings between the three protagonists of the film or the military exercises and loving individuals in Mudwitz.
This classic and decadent atmosphere of operetta is curiously intertwined in the modern film with 20's of last century, a fact which at first may surprise the audience, looking at these gentlemen bearing as spotless uniforms on the streets or even Viennese Archduke see undercover! by them, not to mention the ordinary life of Frau Elisa who lives in a modest apartment, an interesting combination of ordinary and earthly life commoner compared to the aristocratic life of luxury in the palace, all a malicious contrast Herr Neufeld certainly well used to differentiate and make fun of that decadent aristocratic world, able to transmit the public an idealized world of fantasy and dreams can be fulfilled only on the silent screen them for this reason "Der Balletterzherzog: Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe "is the perfect paradigm an entire silent classic operetta.
And now, if I may, I have to leave because this count Germanic must continue practicing their dance on tiptoe.
Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galicia
Unexpectedly and thanks to a misunderstanding involving Frau Elisa and the Arch-Duke, the young student will become the new Prima Ballerina of the “Wiener Staatsoper”.
To say that this Herr Graf watched an Austrian silent operetta recently at the Schloss theatre, is certainly an evident and obvious remark, western much as saying that a commoner watched an American silent, a silent Bolshevist propaganda, a French silent romance or an Italian silent film full of divas.
In "The Ballet Archduke: A Viennese game and love of dance" (1926), an Austrian silent romantic operetta In Which You Can watch - besides luxurious indoor scenery featuring Palaces and the Vienna Opera - a love triangle that Involves at Arch -Duke, his adjutant and a young ballerina. Everything is properly filmed by Mr Max Neufeld (eg his use of the traveling camera emphasizing the grandioseness of the Austrian scenery points out his inner artistic intentions). He's an Austrian film director who had an early career as an actor and he possessed a special fondness for those typical Austrian subjects that commoners like so much ... and obviously aristocrats don’t because they don’t like documentaries.
Accordingly, such an Austrian operetta casts the three main characters of the film with performers that play their roles properly: Herr Albert Paulig as an old aristocrat satyr, an Arch-Duke with a particular interest in ballet primadonnas, Frau Dina Gralla as the lively ballerina girl who goes to and fro into the arms of the Arch-Duke and his adjutant, played by Herr Werner Pittschau as a bewildered young Austrian Count.
Unfortunately the film hasn’t any rich and fat old heiress so necessary when aristocrats are around. There is only the presence of the Arch-Duke’s aunt does not provide a good example of the fattening diet that Austrian aristocrats like so much, because eating schnitzels all day it is not, exactly, a piece of cake…
Everyone is settled in elegant and astounding aristocratic indoor settings that are plentiful in Vienna, so in this film the art direction staff didn’t have anything to improve ...or to do. So, meanwhile, during their vacation, the director simply put the camera in front of all of those decadent and majestic settings.
Certainly the Viennese atmosphere helps to develop a predictable and, at the same time, witty and charming story ( in spite of all, this is Austria and the warm essence of decadence is everywhere ). Probably in other wicked hands this would be a more interesting silent film and full of malice. That’s mainly due to the characteristics of the story, the kind that commoners like very much to exaggerate, that is to say, the aristocrat’s carefree and lustful way of life. However, Herr Neufeld displays many virtues with a mixture of irreverence and hilarity. For examples: the Opera divas’ rivalry, the continual misunderstandings involving between the three main characters and the military /love manoeuvres at Mudwitz.
The classic and decadent operetta atmosphere that can be seen in the film is curiously intertwined with the modern 20’s of the last century. That fact at first bewilders the audience watching those Austrian fellows wearing those impeccable uniforms or even the Arch-Duke in civvies in the streets of Vienna! That’s not to forget the down to earth life of Frau Elisa who resides in a modest apartment. There’s a very interesting combination of modest common real life with the luxury and aristocratic Palaces in a witty contrast that Herr Neufeld certainly uses in order to distinguish and mock properly the aristocratic world of decadence. He transmits to the audience a world of fantasy and idealized dreams that only in the silent films can come true. For this reason “Der Balletterzherzog: Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe” is an excellent paradigm of a film operetta.
And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count must continue to rehearsal about dancing on the tips of historical aristocratic toes.
Herr Graf Ferdinand Von
Galicia - / -
Herr Sixtus Archduke shows a special appreciation of the arts and especially for the young aspiring dancers, just as is happening to his assistant, Herr Count Paul Paladin, the which is keen to Frau Elisa Jenkins, one of those young aspiring dancers above. Unexpectedly
thanks to a misunderstanding which are involved both as the young Archduke Elisa, the latter will become the Prima Ballerina of the "Wiener Staatsoper.
Herr Graf say that it has recently been in an operetta theater Schloss Austrian silent, all is certainly an obvious truism, is how to say that a commoner has been one of those silent films of American cowboys, a Bolshevik propaganda film, a work or a romantic French style silent Italian film full of divas.
"Der Balletterzherzog: Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe" (1926), is, indeed, a romantic operetta silent on which you can see, plus luxurious indoor scenarios where you can see the splendor of the palaces and Vienna State Opera, a love triangle starring an Archduke, his assistant and a young dancer, all filmed in a very correct for Her Max Neufeld (only cite the use of traveling highlighting the grandeur of these lavish sets Austrians, as an unequivocal demonstration of his artistic intentions), which in addition to director, also had a silent first stage as an actor, showing a special interest Neufeld Herr, for these typical Austrian issues like so much to commoners and aristocrats obviously not, because the latter do not look like documentaries.
The film features a protagonist whose trio of actors play their characters as identic, Herr Albert Paulig like an old satyr aristocrat Archduke with a special interest Primadonna, Frau Dina Gralla as aspiring dancer pert which moves us into the arms of the Archduke and his puzzled assistant, played by Herr Werner Pittschau it.
Unfortunately, the film does not see any fat and rich heiress, so essential when they are talking about the aristocracy, only shown in the film, the presence of the aunt of Archduke which is not a good example of diet fat, a delight to the Austrian aristocrats, for indeed, be eating all day "schnitzels" serious threat to the most slender figure ...
All actors are located in elegant and stately interior sets such that both abound in Vienna, so the team behind the film art director had nothing to do or improve about, enjoying a vacation while the director just put the camera in front of those decadent and majestic scenery of the Austrian capital.
Viennese atmosphere certainly helps tremendously when developing this story predictable and at the same time, cryptic and charming, because despite everything, this is Austria and the warm scent of decay is everywhere, but probably in other hands much more perverse, the film would be imbued with much more evil due to the special features that has the history of film being the kind of stories that reflects the libidinous and carefree aristocratic life that commoners like too much, anyway, Herr Neufeld shows some virtuosity in his film by mixing a certain irreverence and hilarity, as it happens in sequences as the rivalry between opera divas, the continuing misunderstandings between the three protagonists of the film or the military exercises and loving individuals in Mudwitz.
This classic and decadent atmosphere of operetta is curiously intertwined in the modern film with 20's of last century, a fact which at first may surprise the audience, looking at these gentlemen bearing as spotless uniforms on the streets or even Viennese Archduke see undercover! by them, not to mention the ordinary life of Frau Elisa who lives in a modest apartment, an interesting combination of ordinary and earthly life commoner compared to the aristocratic life of luxury in the palace, all a malicious contrast Herr Neufeld certainly well used to differentiate and make fun of that decadent aristocratic world, able to transmit the public an idealized world of fantasy and dreams can be fulfilled only on the silent screen them for this reason "Der Balletterzherzog: Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe "is the perfect paradigm an entire silent classic operetta.
And now, if I may, I have to leave because this count Germanic must continue practicing their dance on tiptoe.
Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galicia
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