Blu-ray, DVD Release: Victor and Victoria

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Laurence
– June 9, 2020Find Others: Blu-ray, DVD, Movie, New Release, News

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 9, 2020
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

In the dazzling 1933 German musical romance Victor and Victoria (originally Viktor und Viktoria), a young woman (Renate Müller), unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian (Hermann Thimig) to revamp her act. Pretending to be a man performing in drag, Victoria becomes the toast of the international stage. But she soon finds that her playful bending of genders enmeshes her personal and professional life in a tangle of unexpected complications.

Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, Victor and Victoria received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards’s 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. That said, viewers will be delighted to discover that Reinhold Schünzel’s original is pretty damned good on its own and  reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.

The Blu-ray and DVD contain an audio commentary by film historian Gaylyn Studlar.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.