The World's in Love

1935 Austrian film

CinematographyWerner BrandesEdited byHans WolffMusic by

Franz Lehár (operetta)
Willy Schmidt-Gentner

Production
company

Standard-Film

Distributed byKiba Kinobetriebsanstalt

Release date

4 October 1935

Running time

93 minutesCountryAustriaLanguageGerman

The World's in Love (German: Die ganze Welt dreht sich um Liebe) is a 1935 Austrian comedy film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Mártha Eggerth, Leo Slezak and Ida Wüst.^[1] It is based on the operetta Clo-Clo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Julius von Borsody. It was remade in Britain the following year as Dreams Come True.

Cast

Mártha Eggerth as Ilona Ratkay
Leo Slezak as Adalbert v. Waldenau
Ida Wüst as Helene, seine Frau
Rolf Wanka as Peter, sein Sohn
Hans Moser as Anton, Diener im Hause Waldenau
Alfred Neugebauer as W.G. Miller
Annie Rosar as Frau Ringelmann, Garderobiere bei Ilona Ratkay
Richard Waldemar as T. von Halmay
Phillis Fehr
Eduard Loibner
Karl Skraup
Felix Dombrowsky
Franz Schimmerl as Franzi
Flottwell
Landau
Oskar Pouché
Schmidtek
Viktor Staal
Karl Staudt
Rudolf Stiaßny

Critical reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a neutral review, describing it as a "devastatingly gay film". Greene praised the comedic interplay between Leo Slezak and Hans Moser, however he designed to praise Mártha Eggerth for her performance explaining that he had a peculiar antipathy toward her acting.^[2]

References

^ Waldman p.143
^ Greene, Graham (10 April 1936). "Liebesmelodie/Pot Luck/If You Could Only Cook/One Way Ticket". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 64–65. ISBN 0192812866.)