The Great Skate or Free Skating (German: Die große Kür) is a 1964 Austrian-West German musical romantic comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Paul Hörbiger and Mady Rahl.Bock & Bergfelder p.14von Dassanowsky p.186 It was filmed at the Wiener Stadthalle studios in Vienna and on location in Montreux and Saint-Tropez. The film's sets were designed by the art director Horst Hennicke.https://www.filmportal.de/film/die-grosse-kuer_ecfaf9e63cb94a97a0d4eaa4c5375c2a It was produced in the wake of the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1964 World Figure Skating Championships in which the two leads Kilius and Bäumler had won medals. It was followed by a 1967 sequel The Great Happiness.
Cast Marika Kilius as Self - Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler as Self - Hans-Jürgen Bäumler Peter Kraus as Jonny King Paul Hörbiger as Franz Haslinger Mady Rahl as Doris Marlene Warrlich as Helga Lindenberg - Journalistin Peter Fröhlich as Peter - Fotoreporter Marte Harell as Mrs. King - Chefin der amerikanischen Eisrevue Dorothee Parker as Jane Marlene Rahn as Kiki Wolf Albach-Retty as Chef der Wiener Eisrevue Heinz Erhardt as Eberhard Traugott - Manager Gunther Philipp as Tommy Toifel - Manager Wiener Eisrevue as Themselves Wiener Staatsopernballett as Themselves Pedro di Cordoba as Flamencotänzer I Brutos as Artistengruppe Die Liverpool-Boys as Band
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Bibliography Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
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