The Eternal Mask

The Eternal Mask
Directed byWerner Hochbaum
Written by
Starring
CinematographyOskar Schnirch
Edited byElse Baum
Music 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 minutes
Countries
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

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.