The Empress and I

The Empress and I

Directed by	Friedrich Hollaender
Written by	Paul Frank Robert Liebmann Walter Reisch Felix Salten
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Starring	Lilian Harvey Mady Christians Conrad Veidt Heinz Rühmann
Cinematography	Friedl Behn-Grund
Edited by	Heinz G. Janson René Métain
Music by	Franz Waxman
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	23 April 1933 (1933-04-23)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Empress and I (German: Ich und die Kaiserin) is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Friedrich Hollaender and starring Lilian Harvey, Mady Christians and Conrad Veidt.^[1] It is also known by the alternative title of The Only Girl. The film was produced as a multi-language version. Moi et l'impératrice a separate French-language version was released as well as The Only Girl in English. The multilingual Harvey played the same role in all three films.

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. It was made by Erich Pommer's production unit at UFA, several of whom left the country after the film's release due to the Nazi Party's assumption of power.

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After a fall from a horse, a wealthy Marquis is believed to be dying. While he lies there, he is comforted by the singing of a beautiful woman. When he unexpectedly recovers, he tries to seek out this young woman. Due to a series of confusions, he believes her to be Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III of France. In fact, the woman was a Eugenie's hairdresser, a vivacious young woman engaged to be married to an aspiring composer and conductor currently working for the celebrated Jacques Offenbach.