Willi Forst film
Willi Forst-Film-Produktion, Vienna was the name of the Austrian film production company of the actor and director Willi Forst . The German second branch in Berlin was called "Deutsche Forst-Film-Produktion GmbH".
history
After Willi Forst had produced the Schubert biography Unfinished Symphony for the Cine-Allianz and the British Gaumont in 1934 , he founded his own company in Vienna, Willi Forst-Film Produktion, the first of which was the film Burgtheater (1936). In 1937 Forst went to Berlin, where he was appointed to the supervisory board of the synchronized Tobis and founded another subsidiary, the "Deutsche Forst-Film", which produced some of the most popular German films until 1945. Forst's most important colleague was his film production manager Hans Somborn until the end of the war . While Deutsche Forst-Film was dissolved after the end of the Second World War , the Viennese company continued to exist until 1950 and completed, among other things, the film Wiener Mädeln, which was not finished during the war .
Willi Forst-Film production was based in the legendary Phillipshof behind the Vienna State Opera, which was not rebuilt after a bomb hit in 1945.
Filmography
Willi Forst-Film (Vienna)
- Burgtheater ( Willi Forst , Austria 1936), with Werner Krauss , Olga Chekhowa , Hans Moser and Hortense Raky
- Hofrat Geiger ( Hans Wolff , Austria 1947)
- The woman on the way ( Eduard von Borsody , Austria 1948)
- The cuckoo's egg ( Walter Firner , Austria 1948)
- Wiener Mädeln ( Willi Forst , defector , completion: Austria 1949), with Dora Komar , Judith Holzmeister , Willi Forst, Hans Moser and Curd Jürgens
German Forest Film (Berlin)
- Capriolen ( Gustaf Gründgens , Germany 1937), with Gustaf Gründgens and Marianne Hoppe
- Serenade ( Willi Forst , Germany 1937), with Albert Matterstock and Hilde Krahl
- Bel Ami (1939) ( Willi Forst , Germany 1938/39), with Willi Forst, Olga Chekhowa , Lizzi Waldmüller , Ilse Werner and the famous hit song of the same name by Theo Mackeben as film music.
- I'm Sebastian Ott ( Willi Forst , Viktor Becker , Germany 1939), with Willi Forst and Trude Marlen
- Operetta ( Willi Forst , Germany 1940), with Willi Forst and Maria Holst
- Wiener Blut (1942) ( Willi Forst , Germany), with Willy Fritsch , Maria Holst , Theo Lingen and Hans Moser
- Women are not angels ( Willi Forst , Germany 1942/43), with Axel von Ambesser and Marte Harell
- Hundstage ( Géza von Cziffra , Germany 1943/44) with Sonja Ziemann and Wolf Albach-Retty