Il valzer dell'imperatore

Titolo originale: The Emperor Waltz

1948
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1h 46min

VALUTAZIONE IMDb

1980

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Joan Fontaine, Bing Crosby, Roland Culver, and Richard Haydn in Il valzer dell'imperatore (1948)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.

Regia
- Billy Wilder
Sceneggiatura
- Charles Brackett
- Billy Wilder
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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

6,0/10

1980

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

Regia
- Billy Wilder
Sceneggiatura
- Charles Brackett
- Billy Wilder
Star

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Candidato a 2 Oscar
- 3 candidature totali

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Bing Crosby

Virgil Smith

Joan Fontaine

Johanna Augusta Franziska

Roland Culver

Baron Holenia

Lucile Watson

Princess Bitotska

Richard Haydn

Emperor Franz-Josef

Harold Vermilyea

Chamberlain

Sig Ruman

Dr. Zwieback

Julia Dean

Archduchess Stephanie

Bert Prival

Chauffeur

Alma Macrorie

Inn Proprietress

Roberta Jonay

Chambermaid

John Goldsworthy

Obersthofmeister

Harry Allen

Gamekeeper
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Gene Ashley

Tyrolean Man
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Franco Corsaro

Spanish Marques
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Paul De Corday

Hungarian Officer
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Cyril Delevanti

Diplomat
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Doris Dowling

Tyrolean Girl
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Regia
- Billy Wilder
Sceneggiatura
- Charles Brackett
- Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder began shooting this film in 1946, soon after winning an Oscar for Giorni perduti (1945). That film's great critical reception (and unexpected box-office success) gave Wilder more power and he spent a lot of time and money on this musical (which was his first color film). He was very dissatisfied with the result, however, and the release of the film was extensively delayed, perhaps for re-takes--Wilder liked to say he was hoping to delay its release as long as possible. It opened in Britain a month before its American debut, most unusually, and was a critical and box-office flop. In 1969, he told an interviewer, "I never want to see it again". His next film, Scandalo internazionale (1948), opened in America only three months later.

Citazioni
Princess Bitotska: The Lafuentes have more of everything. In fact, most of their children were born with eleven fingers.

Connessioni
Referenced in Il Saturday Night Live: Melanie Griffith/Little Feat (1988)

Colonne sonore
The Kiss in Your Eyes
Music by Richard Heuberger (uncredited)
English Lyrics by Johnny Burke

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9/10

An underrated gem, a true hidden treasure

"The Emperor Waltz" is an underrated jewel, a true hidden treasure by the great Billy Wilder. The basic idea of the movie is authentic comic genius, Wilder's trade-mark superb wit: two parallel funny love stories, a canine one, of a dog with a blitch, and a human one, of the straightforward American guy Virgil (Bing Crosby) with the haughty Austrian Countess Johanna Augusta Franziska (Joan Fontaine), the respective masters of the pets.

Virgil is a commercial traveller: his stubborn attempts to sell gramophones to (no less a person than) the Emperor Franz-Josef are irresistibly comic. And then the Countess' blitch is the predestined partner of the Emperor's dog, and so she needs to be treated with extreme care (including sessions of psychoanalysis): all the hopes of the over-noble but impoverished family of the Holena von Shwartzemberg-Shwartzemberg lie in her paws... But it's all too funny to be described: see the movie and enjoy yourself.

The funny, gently mocking reconstruction of the Austrian Court and of its rituals at the beginning of the 20th century is stunning. The delightful subtleties are uncountable: see the gentry play lawn-tennis, and the footmen in white gloves who present the tennis-balls on a silver tray...

All the actors make an excellent job, and there are no words to praise enough Richard Haydn as Emperor Franz-Josef. The cinematography, in bright, cheerful colors, is accurate and evocative. The costumes and the locations are magnificent. The film was intended to be a musical: however, we find in it just a pair of nice songs and a rather short ballet. I consider it a further merit of the movie: I'm not much fond of musicals.

I highly recommend "The Emperor Waltz", a praiseworthy issue of Wilder's magic wit and talent.