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| Renate Muller, Anton Walbrook, Viktor und Viktoria |
Renate Muller as "Viktor" with the
sublime Anton Walbrook in Reinhold Shünzel's
dazzling pre-Reich 1933 comedy of gender flexing, and the template for Blake
Edwards' great film of the same name (in English). No point in a detailed
review as the title is one of six movies in a terrific Blu-ray but un-subtitled
boxset released by Studio Hamburg Enterprises under the moniker "50 Years
of Murnau Stiftung celebrations".
Other films include only one other Weimar era
title released last year in an English friendly Blu disc by MOC, Joe May's Asphalt (1929). I confess to finding the picture actually rather insipid, but for
the enjoyable spectacle of uniformed and booted Gustav Frohlich (momma’s
boy Junior from Metropolis) being
humiliated in high Weimar BDSM style by dominatrix of the gutters, Else Heller.
I hope somebody thinks about picking this up for
English friendly viewers. They might profitably pair it with another comedy
from Schunzel who made several more including the amazing costume fantasy Amphityron in 1934, just before he fled
Goebbels and Germany to Hollywood. Attentive viewers may recognize him as an
actor, in the part of friendly and charming "Dr Anderson" amongst the
Nazi gang hiding out in Rio in Notorious
(Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1946).
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