The Court Concert (1936)

Original title

Das Hofkonzert

Directed by

Douglas Sirk

Genre

romantic comedy film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy set in a historical court. A singer and a composer navigate flirtations and misunderstandings in a musical setting.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulold-fashionedromanticfast-pacedcheerfulnostalgic

What happens

The Court Concert (German: Das Hofkonzert) is a 1936 German historical romantic comedy film directed by Detlef Sierck (later known as Douglas Sirk), and starring Mártha Eggerth, Johannes Heesters, and Kurt Meisel. It was made by the largest German studio UFA, based on Das kleine Hofkonzert. It is part of a number of operetta films produced during the 1930s. The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art director Fritz Maurischat. A separate French-language version was also released. It was remade by Tobis Film in the later stages of the Second World War using agfacolor, but the resulting film didn't get a release until 1948. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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