Victor and Victoria

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Viktor und Viktoria
Film poster
Directed by	Reinhold Schünzel
Written by	Reinhold Schünzel
Produced by	Alfred Zeisler Eduard Kubat
Starring	Renate Müller Hermann Thimig Hilde Hildebrand Anton Walbrook
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Music by	Franz Doelle
Distributed by	Universum Film AG
Release date	23 December 1933; 87 years ago (1933-12-23)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Victor and Victoria (German: Viktor und Viktoria) is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel starring Renate Müller as a woman pretending to be a female impersonator. At the same time, Schünzel shot a French-language version of the film as George and Georgette starring Meg Lemonnier and a French cast.

In 1935, Michael Balcon produced an English version titled First a Girl directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale. A West German remake by Karl Anton was released in 1957.

In 1982, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released Victor/Victoria, an English-language remake by Blake Edwards. Edwards later based a successful stage musical on the film. Both the film and the musical starred Julie Andrews.

Cast[]

• Renate Müller as Susanne / Monsieur Victoria
• Hermann Thimig as Viktor Hempel
• Anton Walbrook as Robert
• Hilde Hildebrand as Ellinor
• Fritz Odemar as Douglas
• as Lilian
• Aribert Wäscher as F. A. Punkertin, Victoria's agent

Remakes[]

• 1935 First a Girl (Britain)
• 1957 Victor and Victoria (Germany)
• 1975 My Girlfriend, the Transvestite (Argentina)
• 1982 Victor/Victoria (Britain/US)
• 1995 Victor/Victoria (TV, US)

See also[]

• List of films made in Weimar Germany

External links[]

• Viktor und Viktoria at IMDb
• Rick Thompson in Senses of Cinema
• Viktor und Viktoria at Virtual History

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