Little melody from Vienna

Movie
Original title	Little melody from Vienna
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1948
length	99, 91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	EW Emo
script	EW Emo ; Franz Tassié
production	Excelsior film production (Vienna)
music	Robert proud
camera	Fritz Woditzka
occupation
	Paul Hörbiger : Professor Griebichler; Maria Andergast : Mrs. Weber, a young widow; Hertha Martin : Hannerl, Griebichler's niece; Annie Rosar : Mrs. Zwettl, Griebichler's housekeeper; Theodor Danegger : Kayser senior, music publisher; Karl Schwetter : Kayser jun.; Fritz Imhoff : Straussler, civil servant in the housing office; Fritz Lehmann : Oberleitner, his assistant; Brigitte Zenkl : Liesl, Mrs. Weber's daughter; Helma Gautier : Gerti, Mrs. Weber's daughter; Klaus Jüptner : Rudi, Mrs. Weber's son;

Kleine Melodie aus Wien is an Austrian fiction film from 1948 by EW Emo with Paul Hörbiger and Maria Andergast in the leading roles.

action

There was a great housing shortage in Vienna in the early post-war period. The old music professor Griebichler, a staunch curmudgeon and apparently unteachable curmudgeon, lives in a spacious house and is anything but enthusiastic when the Viennese housing office responsible for the distribution of living space assigns him the young widow Frau Weber and her three children as new roommates. The professor, who loves peace and seclusion above all else, is anything but enthusiastic when cheers and hustle and bustle arrives with the four new roommates. After some friction at the beginning, the old man gradually learns to appreciate the presence of his new roommates and, in the course of the story, transforms into a more amiable fellow man who takes care of the needs of others. At the end of the story, the art lover even gets under the hood.

Production notes

Kleine Melodie aus Wien was composed in the studios of Wien-Sievering and in Vienna (Schönbrunn) itself in mid-1948. The premiere took place on October 29, 1948 in the Austrian capital, the German premiere was on March 29, 1949 in Stuttgart.

Friedrich Erban took over the production management. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures.

Reviews

“A music teacher is quartered with a young widow with three ranks in times of housing shortage. If the film is doing decidedly better today than it was at the time of its premiere, then this is mainly due to EW Emo, the great unhappily of Australian cinema, whose sense of speed and precision is still moments of verve and charm even from the blandest book and the lukewarm actors knew to get. If the circumstances were only halfway right, as with this piece of rubble in furnished interiors, he was even able to create works of beauty and spirit. "

The lexicon of the international film decreed briefly: "Sentimental musical comedy with a little time flavor."

Individual evidence

Web links

Little tune from Vienna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Little melody from Vienna at filmportal.de

[1] Criticism on filmarchiv.at

[2] Little melody from Vienna. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .