Mistress of the World
| Mistress of the World | |
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 German poster for part 1 of the film | |
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| Produced by | Artur Brauner[1] |
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Die Herrin der Welt by Karl Figdor[2] |
| Music by | Roman Vlad[1] |
| Cinematography | Richard Angst |
| Edited by | Ira Oberberg[1] |
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Mistress of the World (German: Die Herrin der Welt, French: Les mystères d'Angkor, Italian: Il mistero dei tre continenti) is a 1960 German-French-Italian science fiction-spy film directed by William Dieterle and starring Martha Hyer and Carlos Thompson.[3] It marked the comeback in his native country of the director William Dieterle after several decades spent in Hollywood.[4] In West Germany it was released in a longer version split in two parts (Die Herrin der Welt - Teil I and Die Herrin der Welt - Teil II).[4]
Cast
- Martha Hyer as Karin Johanson
- Carlos Thompson as Peter Lundström
- Micheline Presle as Madame Latour
- Sabu as Dr. Lin-Chor
- Gino Cervi as Professor Johanson
- Lino Ventura as Biamonte
- Wolfgang Preiss as Dr. Henrik Brandes
- Carl Lange as Berakov
- Leon Askin as Fernando
- Valerij Inkijinoff as Priest
- Hans Nielsen as Colonel Dagget
- Charles Regnier as Norvald
- Rolf von Nauckhoff as Dalkin
- Jean-Claude Michel as Ballard
- Carlo Giustini as John
- Georges Rivière as Logan
- Jochen Blume as Bertrand
- Wolfgang Kühne as Arzt
Production
Mistress of the World was developed when producer Artur Brauner invested in a three-hour West German-French-Italian co-production.[5] Brauner contracted William Dieterle to direct the film.[5] The film was made with a predominantly German crew, but with a multi-national cast including Martha Hyer and Sabu from Hollywood, Carlos Thompson from Argentina and Gino Cervi from Italy, and Micheline Presle and Lino Ventura from France]].[5]
The film was shot between September 1959 and January 1960.[6] The film shot around the world, including Macau, Angkor, Nice, Hong Kong, Naples, Nepal, Sweden, Bangkok and in CCC Studios in Berlin.[6] While filming in Indochina, Dieterle left the production leaving cinematographer Richard Angst to take over directing.[5]
Release
Mistress of the World was released in Paris on October 12, 1960.[1]
Reception
The film was not received well by critics in West Germany on its release.[5]
See also
- List of science fiction films of the 1960s
- List of German films of the 1960s
- List of French films of 1960
- List of Italian films of 1960
Footnotes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Herrin der Welt". Filmportal.de. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ↑ Ashkenazi 2012, p. 116.
- ↑ "Il mistero dei tre continenti".Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
- 1 2 "Il mistero dei tre continenti". Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. ISBN 9788876381874.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bergfelder 2005, p. 122.
- 1 2 "Herrin der Welt (1959) William Dieterle" (in French). Bifi.fr. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
References
- Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 1571815384.
- Ashkenazi, Ofer (2012). Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity. Pelgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137010841.