Streaming Waltz King (1955) Online

Waltz King (1955)iMDB Rating: 5.2
Date Released : 6 October 1955
Genre : Romance
Stars : Marianne Koch, Michael Cramer, Joe Stöckel, Linda Geiser." />
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB

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Instantly Forgettable

This very minor West German film is a completely unmemorable love story set during the height of the Viennese Waltz craze. The film is so rudimentary, commercialised and unambitious it functions as a sad indictment of the post-War German film industry. It would appear that the glories of Weimar Cinema were long-forgotten by this stage and, in its attempt to forget the terrible recent past, the nation could only offer saccharine dramas such as this to its audiences.

Of course, this film does have its strong points: the vivid early colour photography creates a wonderful fantasy world, a dazzling reflection that reinforces the notion of a (mythical) past golden age when everything was fine in the world. The dances are well-choreographed and the lighting is bright, lending to the cheerful air and reflecting the lightness and joy of Viennese dance music.

Utilising Maximilian the Second of Bavaria as a major character was a wise choice as, by all accounts, he was, in relative terms, one of the more benign German leaders and a person of real culture, in stark contrast to the leaders of the Third Reich.

An idealised world of benign authority figures, fairytale weddings, a kind aristocracy and wondrous balls, as presented here may well have been what the German populace needed in a divided country a mere ten years after experiencing the horrors of the military dictatorship and the War but today, the film is so lacking in substance, so forgettable and so stiffly acted and so unadventurous it only really serves to show how the Nazis had ruined the film industry and how so afraid of daring and innovation the Germans had become. Thankfully, as they rebuilt their country and reinvented themselves as a modern, pacifist democratic society, the magic would soon return to German cinema but in the interim, weak material like this would stand as a reflection of the loss of German self-confidence.