Stallion Maestoso Austria

Movie
Original title	Stallion Maestoso Austria
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1956
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16/0
Rod
Director	Hermann Kugelstadt
script	Theodor Ottawa Arthur-Heinz Lehmann
production	Österreichische Film GmbH, Vienna Schönbrunn-Film Ernest Müller, Vienna
music	Oskar Wagner
camera	Walter Partsch Walter Tuch
occupation
Nadia Gray : Countess Marika Szilady Paul Klinger : Georg Hochleitner Rolf Kutschera : Count Ferencz Szilady Gustav Knuth : Loisl, sculptor and painter Lotte Ledl : Mirl, his bride Walter Janssen : Pastor Hilde Jaeger : Emerenzia Felix Czerny : Janos Alfred Neugebauer Elfie Weissenböck Hilde Rome Martin Berliner Hugo Gottschlich Ludwig Geiger Heinz Rohn

Stallion Maestoso Austria is a love film by Hermann Kugelstadt from 1956 . It was based on the novel of the same name by Arthur-Heinz Lehmann .

action

The riding instructor Georg Hochleitner travels to the Lipizzaner stud in Piber to see the stallion Maestoso Austria. Hochleitner falls in love with Countess Marika from Hungary , who shares his passion for horses. She is owned by the precious mare Deflorata.

Marika's fiancé Count Ferencz Szilady, the brother of her deceased husband, stands in the way of her love for Georg Hochleitner. Only after searching for Maestoso Austria do Marika and Georg finally find each other. Maestoso Austria and Deflorata also become a couple.

production

Stallion Maestoso Austria was filmed in the Lipizzaner stud in Piber, in Salzburg, in the Spanish Riding School and in the Hungarian Puszta . The integration of Lipizzaners in Austrian animal and homeland films was an almost unwritten law, not least with regard to tourism advertising.

The film premiered on August 10, 1956 in Vienna .

criticism

Excerpt from the movie poster on a 2007 postage stamp

The lexicon of international films described the stallion Maestoso Austria as "banal entertainment with beautiful animal shots". The film service also criticized the "flat jokes".

Other critics accused the film of applying the homeland film scheme of the high and low couple here to the connections between riding instructor-countess and stallion-mare in an “unsurpassable lack of taste”. At the same time, it was argued that "the connection between a love story and an animal film [...] according to the taste of the time [had to] prove to be particularly successful".

Web links

• Hengst Maestoso Austria in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stallion Maestoso Austria at filmportal.de
• cinema.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 193.
2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1569.
3. ↑ Stallion Maestoso Austria. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .