Victor and Victoria

Viktor und Viktoria

Film poster
Directed by Reinhold Schünzel
Produced by Alfred Zeisler
Written by Reinhold Schünzel
Starring Renate Müller
Hermann Thimig
Hilde Hildebrand
Anton Walbrook
Music by Franz Doelle
Cinematography Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Distributed by Universum Film AG
Release dates
  • 23 December 1933 (1933-12-23)
Running time
100 minutes
Country Nazi Germany
Language German

Viktor and Viktoria (German: Viktor und Viktoria) is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel, starring Renate Müller as a woman pretending to be a female impersonator. At the same time Schünzel shot the film in a French-language version as George and Georgette starring Meg Lemonnier and a French cast.

In 1935 Michael Balcon produced an English version First a Girl directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale. There was a remake Victor and Victoria in West-Germany by Karl Anton in 1957.

In 1982 Blake Edwards remade the film as Victor/Victoria and then based a stage musical on the film both starring Julie Andrews.

Remakes

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