I love Vienna

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Movie
Original title I love Vienna
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Houchang Allahyari
script Houchang Allahyari,
Reinhard Jud
music Tunament , Esmail Vasseghi (Persian music)
camera Helmut Pirnat
cut Charlotte Muller
occupation

I love Vienna is an Austrian film from 1991 that uses the means and forms of social comedy to address the clash of different cultures and values.

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Ali Mohammed, a German teacher from Iran and a devout Muslim , arrives with his younger sister Marjam and his 15-year-old son by train in wintry Vienna . With this trip, he fulfilled a long-cherished dream of his youth: to finally see the city that he thought he knew well from the Sissi films with Romy Schneider . Mohammed has made the firm decision not to visit Vienna as a tourist, but to settle here for a longer period of time, maybe a few years, maybe forever. But when he arrives at the Südbahnhof he is presented with a completely different picture than expected: Dirt, drunk homeless people, noise, traffic chaos on the streets.

Mohammed's nephew lives in Vienna. Together with a friend, the Polish asylum seeker Karol Karnovski (Arthur Gawryluk), he picks up Mohammed and his family from the train station in a somewhat rickety Renault 4 and takes him to a hotel and guesthouse in the second district , near the Praterstern , which - two years after the fall of the Iron Curtain - is predominantly occupied by Romanian asylum seekers. Mohammed and Marianne Swoboda, the landlady of the hotel, fall in love and a relationship develops between the two. However, when Mohammed learns that Marianne is actually married to the boss of the hotel, Rudolf Swoboda, he falls out with Marianne.

His efforts to obtain a long-term residence permit in Austria also wear down Mohammed: his legal adviser, who seems overwhelmed, advises “targeted lies” in order to obtain the necessary residence permit . Mohammed begins to doubt whether Vienna is actually his dream city. So he thinks about going on to the USA . But even a visa to the USA is not so easy to obtain for Iranian citizens. In addition, his world, which is ordered by his traditional values, begins to break apart: his younger sister, for whom he feels like a father, falls in love with Karol. Although he protests loudly against this connection, Mohammed finally has to accept that Marjam wants to live with her partner even without being married. Finally his son gets into "bad company" and Mohammed has to pick him up from the police station.

When Mohammed suffers an acute appendicitis , which means a hospital stay that is barely affordable for him, the now divorced Marianne steps in. That way, at the end of the movie, the two get back together and try a relationship again. It remains to be seen whether Mohammed stays in Vienna or continues to travel to the USA.

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