The Emperor's Candlesticks (1936 film)

The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Directed by	Karl Hartl
Written by	Karl Hartl; ;
Based on	The Emperor's Candlesticks ; by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Starring	Sybille Schmitz; Karl Ludwig Diehl; Friedl Czepa;
Cinematography	Werner Brandes; ; ;
Edited by	Karl Hartl; René Métain;
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production; company	Gloria Film
Distributed by
Release date	14 February 1936
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

The Emperor's Candlesticks (German: Die Leuchter des Kaisers) is a 1936 Austrian historical adventure film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Sybille Schmitz, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Friedl Czepa.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1899 novel The Emperor's Candlesticks by Baroness Orczy. A Hollywood film version of the story The Emperor's Candlesticks was released the following year.

It was shot at Sascha Film's Sievering Studios and Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth, Werner Schlichting and Emil Stepanek. It premiered at the in Berlin, and a month later in Vienna.

Cast[]

Sybille Schmitz as Anna Demidow
Karl Ludwig Diehl as Georg Wolenski
Friedl Czepa as Maria
Inge List as Zofe bei Anna Demidow
Anton Edthofer as Erzherzog Ludwig
Max Gülstorff as Graf Surowkin
Johannes Heesters as Grossfürst Peter Alexandrowitsch
Fritz Rasp as Stanislaus
Heinrich Schroth as Der Führer der Verschworenen
Jane Tilden as Ein Stubenmädchen
Hans Unterkircher
Fritz Imhoff
Reinhold Häussermann
Robert Valberg

Reception[]

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly good review, summarizing the audience experience as "good direction, fair acting, and the attractively Baker Street dresses make this a pleasant film to doze at."^[2]

References[]

^ Von Dassanowsky p.394
^ Greene, Graham (24 May 1936). "The Robber Symphony/The Littlest Rebel/The Emperor's Candlesticks". The Spectator. (reprinted in: John Russel, Taylor, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 78. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography[]

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938. Indiana University Press, 2018

External links[]

The Emperor's Candlesticks at IMDb

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[1] Von Dassanowsky p.394

[2] Greene, Graham (24 May 1936). "The Robber Symphony/The Littlest Rebel/The Emperor's Candlesticks". The Spectator. (reprinted in: John Russel, Taylor, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 78. ISBN 0192812866.)

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