Viennese stories
Movie | |
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Original title | Viennese stories |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1940 |
length | 92 minutes |
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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 | |
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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
Web links
- Vienna Tales in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Viennese stories at filmportal.de
- Viennese stories in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Brühne: Lexicon of the international film . 9 W – Z. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-499-16322-5 , p. 4303 .
- ^ Viennese stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 576/1968.