3 Movies Starring Anton Walbrook

Masquerade in Vienna

Masquerade in Vienna

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1937-01-25

Languages:

German

Countries:

Austria

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (162 Reviews)

Director:

Willi Forst

Fullplot:

Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. The image makes it into the newspaper the next day - but since he can't tell the model's name without offending her influential fiancèe, he comes up with the fictional name Leopoldine Dur. Unfortunately there is a secretary with that name, who now gets into the focus of high society - and into Heidenick's, much to Anita's anger.

The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1949-06-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (820 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHorror

Cast:

Writer:

Rodney Ackland

Arthur Boys

Alexander Pushkin (short story "The Queen of Spades")

Fullplot:

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.

La Ronde

La Ronde

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-03-16

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (3206 Reviews)

Director:

Max Ophèls

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Arthur Schnitzler (play)

Jacques Natanson (adaptation)

Max Ophèls (adaptation)

Jacques Natanson (dialogue)

Fullplot:

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

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