Scandal in Ischl

Movie
Original title	Scandal in Ischl
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1957
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Rolf Thiele
script	Eberhard Keindorff and Johanna Sibelius
production	Otto Dürer
music	Bruno Uher
camera	Klaus von Rautenfeld
cut	Hilwa from Boro
occupation
OW Fischer : Dr. Franz Duhr Elisabeth Müller : Viola Duhr Ivan Desny : Count Vanin Nina Sandt : Marquise de Laforge Doris Kirchner : Ida Harry Meyen : Dr. balm Michael Ande : Prince Franz Alma Seidler : Archduchess Marie Antonie Rudolf Forster : Prince Emanuel Raoul Retzer : Podlasni Fritz Holzer : Editor Wieslinger Hugo Lindinger : Mayor Guido Wieland : Medical Councilor Duhr Susanne Engelhart : Julie Lutz Landers : Baron Bruno von Waldeck Helmuth Lex : Lieutenant Willi von Waldeck Carola Rasch : Countess Nina Senta Wengraf : Countess Ens Christl Erber : Therese Holzapfel Lorli Fischer : Rosi Edith Elmay : Mizzi Willi Meissl-Berling: Dr. Hoffmann Karl Schellenberg: Dr. Swoboda

Scandal in Ischl is an Austrian feature film from 1957 by Rolf Thiele . It is based on Hermann Bahr's comedy Der Meister .

action

Dr. Before the First World War, Franz Duhr was a fashion doctor in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl . In the summer of 1910, when a member of the imperial family was expected to arrive in Ischl, Duhr got into talk. He is said to have helped the young maid Therese Holzapfel to have an abortion after a suicide attempt . Duhr does not allow himself to be confused by the whispering of the high society in Ischl and does not think about revealing the true background of the story, although he is increasingly losing patients. His wife Viola bravely stands by him. With the money from the big game hunter Count Vanin, a friend of the family, Duhr opened a home for single mothers: an affront for the society of Bad Ischl.

The tide turned when Duhr freed the seven-year-old great-grandson of Archduchess Marie-Antoinette, Prince Franz, from a protracted ailment. He is honored and appointed professor. Now it turns out that Duhr did not abort the maid's child, but on the contrary supported the young mother financially, placed it in another position in Salzburg and persuaded him to bring the child into the world.

While Dr. When you become a recognized citizen again, secrecy hits his wife hard. She has endured all the abuse with her head held high and now feels betrayed by her husband. She meets with Count Vanin; the room catches fire and she and the count are freed from the fire trap in a dramatic rescue operation. The situation compromises her and she leaves the house and husband. At the train station in Bad Ischl the couple reconciled. Duhr sees his arrogance and promises improvement. Count Vanin leaves Ischl to go hunting in India.

Reviews

In the Spiegel director Rolf Thiele was criticized for a lack of courage; he had transformed "the casual self-irony of old Austrian social stupidities" from Hermann Bahr's original into a "postcard-colorful folk piece". In addition, one criticized OW Fischer's "penetratingly explanatory monologue" . The lexicon of international film , on the other hand, saw “a lovingly stylized image of society developed with charm and ironic undertone.” In Reclam's Lexicon of German Films (1995), Martin Prucha praised “the quick-witted and originally placed dialogues” and Thiele's “sovereign skill in visual art Pointing ".

literature

• Dorin Popa: OW Fischer, his films - his life. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-453-00124-9

Web links

• Scandal in Bad Ischl in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scandal in Ischl (Austria) . In: Der Spiegel . January 1958 ( online [accessed July 1, 2017]).
2. ^ Scandal in Ischl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2017 .