Viennese stories

Movie
Original title	Viennese stories
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1940
length	92 minutes
Rod
Director	Géza from Bolváry
script	Ernst Marischka , August Christian Riekel (as Harald Bratt)
production	Heinrich Haas
music	Bruno Uher
camera	Willy Winterstein
cut	Alice Ludwig
occupation
Marte Harell : Christine Lechner Paul Hörbiger : waiter Ferdinand Hans Moser : waiter Josef Olly Holzmann : Mizzi Alfred Neugebauer : Councilor Kümmler Oskar Sima : Stanglberger Hans Olden : Count Riedl-Steinbach Siegfried Breuer : Baron von Brelowsky Hedwig Bleibtreu : Baroness Neudegg Fritz Imhoff : Grünberger Hans Schott-Schöbinger : Fritz Seidel Egon von Jordan : Carlo

Wiener G'schichten is a film by the Hungarian director Géza von Bolváry based on a model by Hans Gustl Kernmayr from 1940 and is set in Vienna at the turn of the century.

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The year is 1905. Ferdinand and Josef are two perfect Viennese coffee house waiters who read every wish from their regular guests' eyes. However, they are also vying for the favor of their boss, Christine Lechner, the widowed but still young owner of the café. The younger, dashing Ferdinand seems to have an advantage. However, when he takes on the daughter of a deceased friend in a fatherly manner, Christine gets it wrong and a series of misunderstandings arise, culminating in Ferdinand losing his job and opening his own coffeehouse next door .

The dubious Baron von Brelowsky also takes on the naive young girl from the country, but with more selfish intent. Ferdinand finds out about him, of course, and when the conflict between him and his boss escalates, the bumbling but ultimately good-natured Josef does his best to reconcile the two. Of course it all comes to a happy ending, little Mizzi from the country gets engaged to a young composer. The quarreling couple also reconciles and the two cafes merge.

Reviews

In the printed edition of 1987, the Lexicon of International Films closed the criticism with the words “Milieuverliebte Lustspielunterhaltung”. In the online edition, this became “Undemanding Entertainment”.

After the television premiere on December 12, 1968 in the ARD program , the Evangelische Film-Beobachter came to the following assessment: "German feature film from the war year 1940, for today's taste worthless kitsch, albeit a considerable list of actors."

Awards

In 1940 the film received the state ratings of "artistically valuable" and "popularly valuable".

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Web links

• Vienna Tales in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Viennese stories at filmportal.de
• Viennese stories in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Brühne: Lexicon of the international film . 9 W – Z. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-499-16322-5 , p. 4303 .
2. ^ Viennese stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 576/1968.