The World's in Love

1935 Austrian film

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]

See also

• Dreams Come True (1936)

References

1. Waldman p.143
2. 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. Oxford University Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography

• Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

External links

• The World's in Love at IMDb