Her Highness the Saleswoman

Her Highness the Saleswoman
Her Highness the Saleswoman
Directed by	Karl Hartl
Written by	Karl Hartl
Based on	My Sister and I by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil
Produced by	Fritz Klotsch ; Arnold Pressburger ; Gregor Rabinovitch
Starring	Liane Haid ; Willi Forst ; Paul Kemp
Cinematography	Franz Planer
Edited by	René Métain
Music by	Ralph Benatzky ; Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production; company	Cine-Allianz Tonfilmproduktions
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	4 November 1933;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Her Highness the Saleswoman (German: Ihre Durchlaucht, die Verkäuferin) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Liane Haid, Willi Forst and Paul Kemp.^[1] ^[2] The film is based on the play My Sister and I by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. Location shooting took place around Lake Constance and Lindau in Bavaria.^[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting. It premiered in Hamburg and first appeared in Berlin at the city's Gloria-Palast.^[4] A separate French-language version The Princess's Whim was also produced.

Synopsis

The temperamental Princess Irene falls in love with the literary historian André, but he dislikes her behaviour. Shen then pursues him pretending to be Irene's poor younger sister, who is struggling to make a living as a saleswoman in a shoe shop.

Cast

Liane Haid as Irene, Gräfin von Wittenbrugg
Willi Forst as Dr. André Lenz
Paul Kemp as Peter Knoll
Hubert von Meyerinck as Paul
Gerhard Bienert as Der Kontrolleur
Max Gülstorff as Der Notar
Margot Köchlin as Henriette
Theo Lingen as Felix
Walter Steinbeck as Der Kapitän
Jakob Tiedtke as Ein Kunde
Kurt von Ruffin as Otto

References

^ Rentschler p.226
^ Bock & Bergfelder p.185
^ Klaus p.181
^ https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/ihre-durchlaucht-die-verkauferin_ea43d4a77c6e5006e03053d50b37753d

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links

Her Highness the Saleswoman at IMDb

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[1] Rentschler p.226

[2] Bock & Bergfelder p.185

[3] Klaus p.181

[4] ttps://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/ihre-durchlaucht-die-verkauferin_ea43d4a77c6e5006e03053d50b37753d

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