Oh… Rosalinda!!

Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus is transported to a Technicolor post-war Vienna.

  • Directors

    Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

  • With

    Anton Walbrook

  • UK 1955. 101min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    U

  • A BFI National Archive print

Like the gloriously camp, all-singing, all-dancing cousin of The Third Man, the Archers’ take on Strauss’s operetta of infidelity is as frothy as the champagne it celebrates. With Anton Walbrook as a kind of masked Harry Lime, the team fuses kitsch with their typically inventive subversion. This criminally underseen delight is showing on a sensational dye-transfer Technicolor Scope print. You have no excuse!

Robin Baker

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