Qualtinger's Vienna

Movie
Original title	Qualtinger's Vienna
Country of production	Austria
original language	Austrian German
Publishing year	1997
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Harald Sicherheitsitz
script	Alfred Dorfer & Harald Sicherheitsitz, based on sketches by Helmut Qualtinger
production	Kurt Mrkwicka ( MR Film ) and Wolfgang Rest
music	Peter Herrmann and Lothar Scherpe
camera	Helmut Pirnat
cut	Ingrid Koller
occupation
Alfred Dorfer : Hansi Vera Borek : Gucki Roland Düringer : Doctor Wolfgang Böck : Entertainer Ingrid Burkhard : Aunt Fritzi Ottfried Fischer : husband Otto Grünmandl : Professor Andrea Händler : patient Wolfgang Hübsch : Councilor Karl Markovics : Lawyer Erni Mangold : Praterfee Louise Martini : caretaker Marianne Mendt : murderer Fritz Muliar : State Secretary Reinhard Nowak : Nowak Nikolaus Paryla : Lonely Hanno Pöschl : Guard Commander Lukas Resetarits : Postman Kurt Sobotka : boss Bibiana Zeller : Sophie Beatrice Frey : Lina Wolf Bachofner : Walter Dolores Schmidinger : Prostitutes Fritz Karl : kidnappers Eva Billisich : Stefanie Rudolf Buczolich : Pitsch Walter Kordesch : Waiter Margarete Tiesel : Strupsi Susanne Widl : Prostitute

Qualtinger's Vienna is an Austrian film from 1997. It was produced on behalf of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation with a budget of 13 million schillings and first broadcast in the spring of 1998.

The tragicomic film is based entirely on sketches by Helmut Qualtinger . From around 80 pieces that Qualtinger wrote in the 1960s and 1970s, the screenwriters Alfred Dorfer and Harald Sicheritz selected more than 20 and woven them into a more or less coherent story, without changing anything in the original texts. The basis of the story is the Qualtinger play Im Prater the trees are blooming again, which the author wrote for himself and his wife Vera Borek . In the film, the two roles are played by Borek himself and Alfred Dorfer.

The cast of actors is remarkable. Almost each of the 40 or so speaking roles has been cast with a well-known Austrian or German actor or cabaret artist.

action

A continuous storyline forms the basis for the film. The cynical and disgruntled Hansi (Alfred Dorfer) pushes his walking and speaking disabled mother Gucki (Vera Borek) in her wheelchair through the city. In his monologues he wishes her death several times - once he leaves her standing for a short time on a level crossing and announces that he will leave her there until a train comes.

This walk takes a total of 24 hours in the film. On their journey, the two meet different characters invented by Qualtinger: a drunk postman (Lukas Resetarits), two overly correct police officers (Hanno Pöschl and Wolf Bachofner), artists, kidnappers, Prater entrepreneurs, clients and prostitutes, pop singers, sausage stall owner, corrupt politicians (Fritz Muliar), a lawyer and a doctor (Roland Düringer and Karl Markovits).

Reviews

“Anyone who expects a series of funny Haha humor in view of the numerous cabaret artists will be disappointed. The collage of everyday scenes in the Viennese suburbs is 90 minutes long and timelessly bitter. And still funny because grotesque - and true. "

- courier ,

“Qualtinger's Vienna proves that the young generation of cabaret artists in particular has studied and understood their Qualtinger very well. The desolation of his scenes, which accuse people less than life, which only allow more real punchlines, was hardly ever sacrificed to cabaret effects. "

- The press

Awards

• 1998: Romy for Helmut Pirnat for the best camera
• 1998: Erich Neuberg Prize for director Harald Sicherheitsitz

Web links

• Qualtingers Vienna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Qualtingers Vienna , filmempfoice.com

proof

1. ^ "A moral picture of the Viennese soul", in: Salzburger Nachrichten of July 11, 1997, p. 23
2. ↑ ^{a b} Courier of March 12, 1998, p. 23
3. ^ "Qualtinger's pupil", in: Die Presse , March 24, 1998, p. 26