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Directed by | Walter Reisch |
Written by | Walter Reisch |
Produced by | Walter Reisch, Viktoria-Film |
Starring | Paula Wessely Karl Ludwig Diehl Otto Tressler |
Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
Edited by | Willy Zeyn |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Distributed by | Syndikat-Film |
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Running time | 105 min. |
Country | Austria |
Language | German |
Episode is an Austrian film from 1935. It belongs to the popular Austrian light romantic comedy genre known as the Wiener Film, but also contains, for a film of this genre, unusually serious social comment. It was written and produced by Walter Reisch. The film has a particular importance in German-language film history as the only Austrian film with a Jewish producer that was permitted to be imported and shown in Nazi Germany after 1933 and the ban on Jews working in the film industry.
The German premiere took place on 23 August 1935 in the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. The Austrian premiere was in a Vienna cinema on 13 September of the same year. It was first broadcast on television by the ARD on 2 December 1958. On 1 April 1994 it was released on VHS video.