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Tag Archives: Willi Forst
A Blonde Dream AKA Ein blonder Traum (1932) Paul Martin, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Willi Forst
A penniless artiste is distracted from her dreams of Hollywood stardom Read More »
The Sinner AKA Die Sünderin (1951) Willi Forst, Hildegard Knef, Gustav Fröhlich, Robert Meyn
Marina, a prostitute, lives with the unsuccessful artist Alexander. Read More »
End of an Affair AKA So endete eine Liebe (1934) Karl Hartl, Paula Wessely, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I Read More »
Masquerade in Vienna (1934) Willi Forst, Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Peter Petersen
Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. Read More »
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930) Géza von Bolváry, Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst
Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Read More »
Mazurka (1935) Willi Forst, Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Ingeborg Theek
“Mazurka” was Willi Forst’s third film as a director, made directly after having achieved a major international success with “Maskerade”. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti
Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) 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 »
Bel Ami (1939) Willi Forst, Olga Tschechowa, Johannes Riemann, Drama, Romance
Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
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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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