Maskerade

Aug 21 1934 N/A 1h 30m
Comedy, Romance

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.

Plot

Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heideneck draws the wife of a society doctor wearing only a mask and a muff. The image makes it into the newspaper the next day, and the artist is pressed for the model's name, but since he can't reveal it, he comes up with the fictional name Leopoldine Dur. Unfortunately there is a respectable young lady with that name, who is drawn into the other characters' deceits and love affairs.

Written by

Willi Forst, Walter Reisch

Directed by

Willi Forst

Cast

Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Olga Tschechowa

Crew

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Production Countries

Austria

Production Companies

Tobis Filmkunst, Sascha-Verleih

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
416
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA