''Mediterranean Holiday'' (german: Traumreise unter weissen Segeln) is a 1962 West German

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

directed by

Hermann Leitner Hermann Leitner (3 September 1927–22 February 2013) was an Austrian film editor and film director. His 1962 documentary film '' Mediterranean Holiday'' was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography Editor * ' ...

and

Rudolf Nussgruber Rudolf Nussgruber (7 April 1918 – 26 July 2001) was an Austrian film director. In 1962, he co-directed the documentary film '' Mediterranean Holiday'' with Hermann Leitner and it was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival ...

. It was entered into the

3rd Moscow International Film Festival The 3rd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1963. The Grand Prix was awarded to the Italian film '' 8½'' directed by Federico Fellini. Jury * Grigori Chukhrai (USSR - President of the Jury) * Shaken Ajmanov (USSR) * S ...

. It was filmed in Superpanorama 70, a 70mm non-anamorphic format, marketed as Cinevision when presented on a curved screen. It was reprinted anamorphically in 35mm and often advertised as a CinemaScope release. It was even shown in a

Cinerama Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc. The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporati ...

theatres, where it was advertised as a Cinerama release.

Cast

Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own rad ...

as narrator (English-language version) *

Hans Clarin Hans Clarin (14 September 1929 – 28 August 2005) was a German actor. He became a well-known voice actor of characters in children audio plays, particularly the kobold ''Pumuckl'' (including its TV and cinematic film adaptations), the German voic ...

as narrator (German-language version) * Graham Hill as himself *

Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. Kelly ...

as herself (as Princess Grace of Monaco) * Begum Aga Khan III as herself (as Die Begum) *

King Constantine II Constantine II ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, ''Konstantínos II''; 2 June 1940) reigned as the last King of Greece, from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973. Constantine is the only son of King Paul an ...

as himself (as Prince Constantine of Greece) * Prince Rainier of Monaco as himself

References

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* 1962 films 1962 documentary films German documentary films West German films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Karl Hartl Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Seafaring films 1960s German films {{documentary-film-stub