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Apart from this film, Queen of Spades, La Ronde, Lola Montes, and the Archers films, what other essential Anton Walbrook performances should I seek out?

Relatedly, I see there’s a recent (rather long, rather expensive) biography available, but I think I’m more interested in watching the work rather than reading about it (my career in academia in a nutshell), or at least watching more of it than I’ve seen before I read about it.

Arthur Robison's 1935 adaptation of Der Student von Prag, both for Walbrook's performance and because the film is great

Not a film I think about because of Anton Walbrook's performance (though he's good) but because as a whole it's one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years and I'm getting a chance to mention it, Willi Forst's 1934 Maskerade.

His performance is not nearly one of the standouts in the film, but anyone still sleeping on Preminger’s Saint Joan should remedy that ASAP

Saturnome wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:27 am Not a film I think about because of Anton Walbrook's performance (though he's good) but because as a whole it's one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years and I'm getting a chance to mention it, Willi Forst's 1934 Maskerade.

Great film and perhaps Walbrook's greatest performance and still very sadly difficult to see. This is high on my Blu Ray/restoration wish-list.

+1 for "Maskerade", of course. Completely on a par with Ophüls, and I mean: 1950s Ophüls.

And if you want to see a very fine Austrian screwball comedy, check out "Allotria" (1936, also directed by Willi Forst).