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… nur ein Komödiant (also König der Maske; in English, … just a Comedian, or King of the Mask) is the title of an Austrian film of 1935. The director was Erich Engel, temporarily in Vienna as a political emigrant from Germany, who with this film made a statement against fascism and authoritarian government. That it passed the strict censors not only of the Third Reich but of Austria can only have been because all political references were veiled by their setting in a royal court of the 18th century.
The premiere took place on 20 September 1935 in the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg. The film went on general release in Germany on 9 October 1935, opening in the Capitol in Berlin, and in Austria on 10 January 1936, opening in Vienna.
Original Release
09/02/1935
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rudolf Forster | Florian Reiter / Herzog Friedrich Theodor |
Christl Mardayn | Comtesse Beate |
Paul Wegener | Staatsminister von Creven |
Hans Moser | Melchior Pfennig |
Grit Haid | Minna |
Hilde von Stolz | Gräfin Karola von Roedenau |
Gretel Berndt | Baronin Denise |
Lisl Kinast | Martha, eine Schauspielerin |
Wilhelm König | Peter Tamm, ein Schauspieler |
Franz Schafheitlin | Der Mahler Blanchet |
Directors
Writers
Wolfgang von Herter, Albrecht Joseph, Leo Perutz, Joseph Than
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rudolf Forster | Florian Reiter / Herzog Friedrich Theodor |
Christl Mardayn | Comtesse Beate |
Paul Wegener | Staatsminister von Creven |
Hans Moser | Melchior Pfennig |
Grit Haid | Minna |
Hilde von Stolz | Gräfin Karola von Roedenau |
Gretel Berndt | Baronin Denise |
Lisl Kinast | Martha, eine Schauspielerin |
Wilhelm König | Peter Tamm, ein Schauspieler |
Franz Schafheitlin | Der Mahler Blanchet |
Alfred Neugebauer | Zeremonienmeister |
Rudolf Carl | Astrolog |
Josef Bergauer | |
Babette Devrient | |
Paul Henreid | Velthen |
Ingrid Larsen | Baronin Denise von Kleeberg |
Wilhelm Leicht | Schauspieler |
Karl Paryla | |
Ernst Pröckl | |
Johannes Roth | Lokalgast |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Joseph Than | Producer |