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Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.Read moreLess
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
The story
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
Cast & crew
Mártha EggerthChristine Holm alias Sängerin Belotti
Johannes HeestersLeutnant Walter von Arnegg
Herbert HübnerStaatsminister von Arnegg
Ernst WaldowDamenwäschevertreter von Zunder
Hans RichterGefreiter Veit
Kurt MeiselLeutnant Florian Schwälble
Rudolf PlatteHofkapellmeister
Rudolf Klein-RoggeOberst Flumms
Flockina von PlatenGräfin Hadersdorff
Ingeborg von KusserowZofe Babette
Alfred AbelDichter KnipsExplore the crew
- Director
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer
- Franz Wallner-Basté
- Writer
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer
- Kurt Heynicke
- Producer
- Bruno Duday
- Original Music Composer
- Edmund Nick
- Original Music Composer
- Ferenc Vecsey
- Director of Photography
- Franz Weihmayr
- Editor
- Erich Kobler