Visionary British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger revisited the world of music and ballet once more with the spectacular Oh... Rosalinda! - the comedy adaptation of Johan Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus, updated to post-war Vienna. A scintillating, light-hearted musical, it features memorable performances from a stellar cast including Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook and prima ballerina Ludmilla Tcherina as the titular Rosalinda!
Vienna, 1955 - a city under occupation by the four Allied powers. Through the chaos Dr Falke moves gracefully - an elegant man-about-town and friend to the highest echelons of power. He is decidedly less graceful, however, when he is deposited by a friend in the lap of a giant Soviet statue, rather the worse for drink and dressed as a giant bat. Falke swears revenge...
Previously unreleased on home-video, Oh... Rosalinda! has been roundly ignored making this 'lost' film's debut on Blu-ray, DVD and Amazon Video on August 12th a cause for a Champagne celebration and an opportunity for this unabashedly eccentric film to be reappraised and rediscovered. It is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original CinemaScope aspect ratio.
