The Great Skate

The Great Skate
Directed byFranz Antel
Written byKurt Nachmann
Produced byCarl Szokoll
StarringMarika Kilius
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Paul Hörbiger
Mady Rahl
CinematographySiegfried Hold
Edited byArnfried Heyne
Music byErwin Halletz
Production
companies
Team-Film
Wiener Stadthalle-Station Betriebs-und Produktionsgesellschaft
Distributed byNora Film
Release date
  • 4 October 1964 (1964-10-04)
Running time
99 minutes
CountriesAustria
West Germany
LanguageGerman

The Great Skate or Free Skating (German: Die große Kür) is a 1964 Austrian-West German musical romantic comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Paul Hörbiger and Mady Rahl.[1] [2] It was filmed at the Wiener Stadthalle studios in Vienna and on location in Montreux and Saint-Tropez. The film's sets were designed by the art director Horst Hennicke. [3] It was produced in the wake of the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1964 World Figure Skating Championships in which the two leads Kilius and Bäumler had won medals. It was followed by a 1967 sequel The Great Happiness.

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Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
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