The Emperor's Candlesticks (1936 film)

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 Baroness Orczy's 1899 novel The Emperor's Candlesticks. A Hollywood film version of the story The Emperor's Candlesticks was released the following year.

This article is about the Austrian film. For the American film, see The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937 film). For the 1899 novel by Baroness Orczy on which both films are based, see The Emperor's Candlesticks.
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Directed byKarl Hartl
Written by
  • Karl Hartl
  • Friedrich Schreyvogel
Based onThe Emperor's Candlesticks
1899 novel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Gloria Film
Distributed byKiba Kinobetriebsanstalt
Release date
14 February 1936
Running time
90 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

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 Gloria-Palast in Berlin, and a month later in Vienna.

Plot summary

Cast

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
  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.)

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


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