Countess Mizzi
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| Original title | Countess Mizzi |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 60 minutes |
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| Director | Otto Schenk |
| production | Heinz Scheiderbauer |
| music | Gerhard Wimberger |
| camera | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| cut | Ulli Schwarzenberger |
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Komtesse Mizzi is a television adaptation of the comedy Komtesse Mizzi or The Family Day by Arthur Schnitzler, which premiered in 1909, was commissioned by Austrian Broadcasting and Second German Television . The version, which is only slightly shortened compared to the original, was directed by Otto Schenk with Christine Ostermayer in the title role.
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Egon Fürst Ravenstein visits Count Arpad Pazmandy in his Viennese villa and surprisingly informs his daughter, Countess Mizzi, of the arrival of their son Philipp, whom the latter had to give up shortly after the birth and whom the Prince has since adopted. At the same time, Count Charlotte Langhuber's long-time lover, known as Lolo, appears to bid him farewell because of her upcoming marriage. After Mizzi also parted ways with her current lover, the art professor Windhofer, they decide to go on holiday together to Ostend , which - unspoken - amounts to an acceptance of Prince Ravenstein's proposal by Countess Mizzi.
Reviews
“While Arthur Schnitzler's Countess Mizzi depicts a panorama of Viennese society at the turn of the century with plot and characters, Otto Schenk's 1975 film shows how Viennese society wanted to see Schnitzler's pieces in the sixties and seventies. Photos in sunny yellow paint the face of the unshakable, aging nobility on the canvas and dialogues in the slightly sleepy, but unmistakably erotic Viennese, add to the spring mood of actresses, actors and audience. Also that by the way an orphaned seventeen-year-old appears and the Countess Mizzi prefers to be called "temporarily dead" than to confess to her motherhood, and that after twenty years the great love of the baron simply marries an almost penniless fiaker no harm to that. "(Barbara Eichinger)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Countess Mizzi in theInternet Movie Database(English)