The Eternal Mask

1935 film

Leo Lapaire (novel)
Werner Hochbaum

Starring

Peter Petersen
Mathias Wieman
Franz Schafheitlin
Tom Kraa

CinematographyOskar SchnirchEdited byElse BaumMusic byAnton Profes

Production
company

Progress Film

Distributed byArthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn (US)

Release dates

26 August 1935 (1935-08-26) (Wien)
12 January 1937 (1937-01-12) (US)

Running time

85 minutesCountries

Austria
Switzerland

LanguageGerman

The Eternal Mask (German: Die ewige Maske) is a 1935 Austrian-Swiss drama film directed by Werner Hochbaum and starring Peter Petersen, Mathias Wieman and Franz Schafheitlin. The film was amongst the best ten foreign films of the year judged by the 1937 American National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. It also ran in competition at the 3rd Venice International Film Festival.

Cast

Peter Petersen as Professor Tscherko
Mathias Wieman as Dr. Dumartin
Franz Schafheitlin as Monsieur Negar
Tom Kraa as Dr. Wendt
Thekla Ahrens as Sister Anna
Olga Chekhova as Madame Negar
Karl Skraup as Le gardien

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

The Eternal Mask at IMDb

Films directed by Werner Hochbaum

Brothers (1929)
Raid in St. Pauli (1932)
Judgment of Lake Balaton (1933)
Life Begins Tomorrow (1933)
Tugboat M 17 (1933)
The Eternal Mask (1935)
Suburban Cabaret (1935)
Light Cavalry (1935, French)
Light Cavalry (1935, German)
Shadows of the Past (1936)
The Empress's Favourite (1936)
Hannerl and Her Lovers (1936)
Talking About Jacqueline (1937)
A Girl Goes Ashore (1938)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1934–1950	Man of Aran (1934) No Award (1935) Carnival in Flanders (1936) The Eternal Mask (1937) La Grande Illusion (1938) Port of Shadows (1939) The Baker's Wife (1940) Pépé le Moko (1941) No Award (1942–1949) The Titan (1950)
1951–1975	Rashomon (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) A Queen Is Crowned (1953) Romeo and Juliet (1954) The Prisoner (1955) The Silent World (1956) Ordet (1957) Pather Panchali (1958) Wild Strawberries (1959) The World of Apu (1960) Die Brücke (1961) Sundays and Cybele (1962) 8½ (1963) World Without Sun (1964) Juliet of the Spirits (1965) The Sleeping Car Murders (1966) Elvira Madigan (1967) War and Peace (1968) Shame (1969) The Wild Child (1970) Claire's Knee (1971) The Sorrow and the Pity (1972) Cries and Whispers (1973) Amarcord (1974) The Story of Adele H. (1975)
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