This is the remake of the 1941 German classic,The only difference that it was shot in a.g.f.a color showing the art direction and it;s costumes to its best.Hans Moser is the remake and portrays the head waiter at the Opernball.Theo again plays the butler,The other differences that it has song numbers.About the story Hertha and Sonja want to test their husband fidelity,when they go to the Opernball.They both agree to write a letter claiming to be mysterious women ,who wan to meet then at the ball,their husband played by Johannes Heesters and Joseph Mienrad.They tell the both men that they will be wearing pink dresses.Johannes finds out that Hertha is going to be one of those women.He teaches Hertha lesson by getting the maid ,played by Doris Kreysler to dress up in the same pink out fit and in the ball switch Hertha place with Keysler for Meinradand Jopie with Hertha.Jopie ask his girl friend played by Francis Martin, to meet with his friend at the Opernball,played by Rudolph Vogel,who wants to get away from his bossy diet demanding wife played by Fita Benkhoff,who would not let him go to the ball.But it gets all screwed up at the ball.in the private rooms it turn out that Doris ends up with Johannes and Hertha ends up with Joseph accidentally .This angers Johannes.Sonja thinks Meinrad is making out with Hertha,so, she gets revenge by flirting with young new composer played by Adrian Hoven.Theo and Hans have to search for Rudolph before his wife find out where he was.His wife finds out and tries to look for him and sees Sonja is deciding to go further with Adrian for revenge.Fita stops her and takes her place both her and Adrian get drunk.Eventually this is straightened out. One would of thought that this would have been shot in cinema scope and Technicolor ans stereo,since it was available in Germany,but,having to still pay world war 1 dept and rebuilding Germany No bank would give studios big loans.This is my guess.The end of it advertise it as being restored .08/29/14
Review of Opernball
