''Victoria in Dover'' (aka ''The Story of Vickie'') (German title: ') is a 1954 Austrian
historical romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Ernst Marischka
Ernst Marischka (2 January 1893 – 12 May 1963) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962. He wrote and directed the Sissi trilogy ...
and starring
Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider (; born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central chara ...
,
Adrian Hoven
Adrian Hoven (18 May 1922 – 28 April 1981) was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981. He was born in Wöllersdorf, Austria as ''Wilhelm Arpad Hofkirchner'' and died in Tegernsee, G ...
and
Magda Schneider
Magdalena Maria Schneider (17 May 1909 – 30 July 1996) was a German actress and singer. She was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider.
Biography
Magdalena Maria Schneider was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the daughter of a plumber. She att ...
.
[Fritsche p. 62] It is a remake of the 1936
Erich Engel
Erich Gustav Otto Engel (14 February 1891 – 10 May 1966) was a German film and theatre director.He is often confused with another German film director called Erich Engels, who specialised in comedy, and crime films.
Biography
Engel was b ...
film ''
Victoria in Dover'', which was based on a 1932 play by
Sil-Vara Gustav A. "Geza" Silberer (1 December 1876 – 5? 8? April 1938) was an Austrian journalist and author of Jewish extraction born in Werschetz who wrote in German under the pseudonym Sil-Vara.
Biography
Gustav Silberer (aka G. Sil-Vara) was a jou ...
. Romy Schneider's performance as a spirited young royal was a lead-in to her best known role in ''
Sissi'' and its sequels, although Marischka had originally intended to cast
Sonja Ziemann as Victoria.
It was shot at the
Sievering Studios
Sievering Studios were film production studios located in Sievering, a suburb of the Austrian capital Vienna.
The studios were established in 1916 by the film pioneer Alexander Kolowrat for use by his Sascha-Film. After the First World War they f ...
in
Vienna
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and
on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff
Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff (1908–1993) was an Austrian art directorDassanowsky p.130 who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. Jüptner-Jonstorff was one of the leading figures in his field in Europe, designing sets for films such ...
.
Synopsis
After her Prime Minister
Lord Melbourne
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, (15 March 177924 November 1848), in some sources called Henry William Lamb, was a British Whig politician who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). His first pre ...
arranges a marriage for her with the German
Prince Albert, the young
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
decides to leave London and spend some time in
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that he is her intended husband Albert.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity''. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
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1954 films
Austrian romantic comedy films
Austrian historical comedy films
1950s historical comedy films
1954 romantic comedy films
Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria on film
Films set in London
Films set in Kent
Films set in the 1830s
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Ernst Marischka
Remakes of German films
1950s historical romance films
Films shot at Sievering Studios