A doctor marries a colleague who once loved the patient, a paraplegic, he is operating on. Read More »
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The Trapp Family AKA Die Trapp-Familie (1956) Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, Maria Holst
A novice nun, Maria, is sent to care for the unruly children of a wealthy Baron. Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
Wiener Blut / Viennese Spirit (1942) Willi Forst, Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hans Moser, Comedy, Music
Willy Forst of course is famous for looking back on the ‘old Vienna’ in a mixture of nostalgia and gentle irony in his films, but “Wiener Blut” may be the one which most highlights the question of what makes the ‘true’ Viennese style. We get a first answer right at the beginning, when Forst himself masqueraded as a medieval alchemist mixes the ingredients for the brew of this film, which are ‘humour’, ‘frivolity’, ‘heart’, ‘history’ and most of all, ‘music’. And the film gets this mixture right.
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