The Great Skate

The Great Skate or Free Skating is a 1964 Austrian-West German musical romantic comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Paul Hörbiger and Mady Rahl. It was filmed at the Wiener Stadthalle studios in Vienna and on location in Montreux and Saint-Tropez. The film's sets were designed by the art director Horst Hennicke. It was produced in the wake of the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1964 World Figure Skating Championships in which the two leads Kilius and Bäumler had won medals. It was followed by a 1967 sequel The Great Happiness.