Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934 film)
Tales from the Vienna Woods (German: G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a 1934 Austrian musical film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Magda Schneider, Wolf Albach-Retty and Leo Slezak.[1] The title refers to the waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss.
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| Directed by | Georg Jacoby |
| Written by | Mary Stephans |
| Starring | Magda Schneider Wolf Albach-Retty Leo Slezak |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| Cinematography | Werner Brandes |
Production company | Bosser-Films Mondial-Film |
| Distributed by | Lux-Film Wien Siegel-Monopolfilm (Germany) |
Release date | 27 September 1934 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Austria |
| Language | German |
Cast
- Magda Schneider as Milly Scheffers
- Wolf Albach-Retty as Graf Rudi von Waldheim
- Leo Slezak as Alois Jeremias Schopf
- Georg Alexander as Prince Kiriloff
- Truus Van Aalten as Mary Limford
- Oscar Sabo as Pomeisl
- Henry Lorenzen as Bobby Limford
- Lotte Lang
- Herbert Hübner
- Eduard Loibner
- Karl Zeska
- Karl Bachmann
- Karl Kneidinger
Reception
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, complaining primarily about the acting of Magda Schneider. Greene claimed that Slezak's "magnificent buffoonery tries to save the film," but Greene concluded that "Austrian films are born dead: horrible bright fakes from a ruined country, libellous laughter."[2]
References
- Bock & Bergfelder p.223
- Greene, Graham (14 October 1937). "Big City/Tales from the Vienna Woods/Children at School". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0192812866.)
Bibliography
- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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