''The Favourite of Schonbrunn'' (German: ''Der Günstling von Schönbrunn'') is a 1929 German
historical film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swa ...
directed by
Erich Waschneck
Erich John Waschneck (29 April 1887, in Grimma, Kingdom of Saxony – 22 September 1970, in Berlin) was a German cameraman, director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Early life
Erich was the son of Karl Hermann Waschneck, a blacksmith, and hi ...
and
Max Reichmann
Max Reichmann (1884-1958) was a German film director active during the silent and early sound eras. Before making his own films, Reichmann worked as an assistant director on several E.A. Dupont productions. After graduating to directing, he dire ...
and starring
Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich ( sr, Иван Петровић, Ivan Petrović; 1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962) was a Serbian film actor and singer.
He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly w ...
,
Lil Dagover and
Vera Malinovskaya.
[Kosta p.115] It was a
part-talkie
A part-talkie is a partly, and most often primarily, silent film which includes one or more synchronous sound sequences with audible dialog or singing. During the silent portions, lines of dialog are presented as "titles"—printed text briefly ...
, with some sequences in
sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' b ...
and others
silent.
The film's sets were designed by
Erich Czerwonski
Erich Czerwonski (1889–1940) was a German art director.Kreimeier p.73 He designed the sets for around a hundred productions during his career. He died in 1940 after being struck by a train during a blackout.
Filmography
* '' The Black Panther ...
and
Alfred Junge.
Cast
*
Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich ( sr, Иван Петровић, Ivan Petrović; 1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962) was a Serbian film actor and singer.
He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly w ...
as
Oberst Trenck
*
Lil Dagover as
Kaiserin Maria Theresia
*
Vera Malinovskaya as Gräfin Nostiz
*
Henry Stuart as
Kaiser Franz
*
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
as Trencks Diener
*
John Mylong
John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.
Selected filmography
* ''Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil'' (1921) - Rabo ...
as Ordonnanz des Kaisers
*
Ferdinand von Alten
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...
*
Valeria Blanka
*
Ludwig Stössel
Ludwig Stössel (12 February 1883 – 29 January 1973) was an actor born in Lockenhaus, now Austria, then Hungary. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Biography
S ...
*
Alexander Murski
Alexander Alexandrovich Murski ( Russian: Александр Александрович Мурский) (1 November 1869 – April 1943) was a Saint Petersburg, Russian-born German actor. Murski died in 1943 in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, Fra ...
See also
* ''
Trenck, der Pandur'' (1940)
References
Bibliography
* Kosta, Barbara. ''Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
*
1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Erich Waschneck
German silent feature films
Transitional sound films
1920s German-language films
Films set in Austria
Films set in the 18th century
German historical films
1920s historical films
Bavaria Film films
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
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