Czardas of Hearts
Directed by	Sándor Szlatinay
Written by	Helmuth M. Backhaus Sándor Szlatinay
Based on	Servus Peter by Károly Nóti
Produced by	Toni Schelkopf
Starring	Wolf Albach-Retty Hannelore Bollmann Dorit Kreysler
Cinematography	Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited by	Hilde Grebner
Music by	Willy Mattes
Production company	Oska-Film
Distributed by	Siegel Monopolfilm
Release date	26 January 1951 (1951-01-26)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Czardas of Hearts (German: Czardas der Herzen) is a 1951 West German comedy film directed by Sándor Szlatinay and starring Wolf Albach-Retty, Hannelore Bollmann and Dorit Kreysler.^[1] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. It was based on the play Servus Peter by Károly Nóti^[2] and it is also known by this title. An earlier version of the story Hello, Peter! was made by Szlatinay in Hungary in 1939.

In pre-war Budapest the struggling actor Paul is mistaken for his doppelganger Peter, a celebrated film director. Peter wants a break from the public interest and pressures of his job and hires Paul to masquerade as him for several days.

• Wolf Albach-Retty as Peter Tornay / Paul Endre
• Hannelore Bollmann as Eva Tornay
• Edith Klinger as Marika Egressy
• Dorit Kreysler as Lilly
• Iván Petrovich as Tornay senior
• Oskar Sima as Ferenc
• Erik Ode as Gabor Takacs
• Hermann Pfeiffer as Takacs senior
• Elfie Beyer as Gizi Takacs
• Marianne Koch as Reporterin

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

• Czardas of Hearts at IMDb

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