Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979 film)
- Birgit Doll: Marianne
- Hanno Pöschl: Alfred
- Helmut Qualtinger: Magic Kingdom
- Götz Kauffmann: Oskar
- Jane Tilden: Valerie
- Norbert Schiller: captain
- Robert Meyer
- Adrienne Gessner: Alfred's grandmother
- André Heller: Here Linger
- Martha Wallner: Alfred's mother
- Elisabeth Epp: Baroness
- Lil Dagover: Helene
- Eric Pohlmann: Digg
The film Tales from the Vienna Woods was born in 1979, directed by Maximilian Schell. The film is based on the play Tales from the Vienna Woods by Odon von Horvath.
Action
Marianne, the daughter of the "magic king " ( owner of a toy shop ) is, at its request, with Oskar, a meat pick grater seater together, she does not really love. In the engagement she meets Alfred, know a young Strizzi, but which is only interested in women, money and horse racing betting. This has just separated from Valerie, a tobacconist. Valerie Bandelt while with Erich, a nephew of the king's magic. Alfred manages to make Marianne docile, so that it breaks her marriage vows with Oskar. Her father, whose " retirement " would have been the butcher, Marianne violates it. She prefers to Alfred and soon gets a child by him. In order to get free from the lover whose devotion to him is soon annoying, again, Alfred brings them at a " dance group" below. The child she admits Alfred's mother in the Wachau. Oscar loves Marianne and still want to marry her, but he does not want to take the alien child.
Marianne ends up in the "Maxim", a famous night club in Vienna, where she must pose half naked in the so-called " living pictures". A guest who offers her money so she sleeps with him, pushes her under the theft of his wallet when she rejects his offer. The Magic Kingdom, which is present as a guest also in "Maxim" and learns that his own daughter was arrested there because of the alleged theft, suffers from excitement to a stroke that paralyzed him on one side. After his release from prison Marianne versa desperately back to her parents' house. Become intelligible through the help of Valerie's your father, forgives her and is healthy again; Oskar she wants - now also with their child - to get married. Meanwhile, Alfred returns back to Valerie. When everyone in the Wachau come to Alfred's grandmother to pick up the child, Marianne learns that her child had died through the fault of the grandmother, who wanted to free Alfred from this "burden". Broken and deeply sad Marianne goes away with Oscar.
Reviews
" Image-sound contrasts and formal breaks alienate the people piece to an evil, comic, tragic, sometimes superficially cabaret revue morbid conditions on the eve of the Nazi takeover of power. "
Awards
1980, the film at the German Film Prize was awarded the Film Award in Silver.
Others
- This was the last movie with actress Lil Dagover that since the silent film era ( The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The weary death) was one of the great ladies of the German screen.