本片是关于奥地利作曲家——“华尔兹王”约翰?施特劳斯的音乐传记片，由美国米高梅影片公司出品，朱利恩?杜维威尔导演。主要介绍了施特劳斯因酷爱音乐而被解雇后专门从事华尔兹舞曲的创作，他的舞曲得到古典派的蔑视，但同时也得到平民的欢迎，及有关他与妻子波蒂和皇家歌剧院卡拉?唐纳之间的三角关系。

       《翠堤春晓》是一部经典的音乐片，也是一部经典的传纪 片，主人公是世界著名音乐家、“圆舞曲之王”约翰?施特劳斯。

       伴随故事的情节，施特劳斯一首首名曲如《维也纳森林的故事》、《春之声》、《《蓝色多瑙河》等在影片中流淌……

       本片获第11届奥斯卡（1938）最佳摄影奖。约瑟夫．鲁顿伯格在本片中以高超的摄影技巧，将许多动人的场面拍得美不胜收。

7月5日晚 10点30分 上海外语频道

The Great Waltz is a 1938 biographical film of the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus.The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann Strauss. European singing sensation Fernard Gravet stars as Strauss, while MGM's two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer is top-billed as Poldi Vogelhuber. Poldi is the wife of Strauss, but she is forced to sit and sulk as her usband carries on a lengthy affair with opera singer Milza Korjus (in her only American film)h. Husband and wife mend their differences shortly before being introduced to the court of Emperor Franz Josef. The scene everyone remembers is the one in which Gravet and Korjus improvise "The Tales of the Vienna Woods" while taking a buggy ride in the country. It's as corny as all get out, but never fails to earn applause when seen today. Dmitri Tiomkin was given the unenviable task of adapting the original Strauss tunes to conform with the concept of the film, while an uncredited Josef Von Sternberg assisted official director Julien Duvuvier in several crucial scenes. The 1972 The Great Waltz, which starred Horst Buchholtz, is generally conceded to be a disaster.

10:30pm, July 5, ICS