A year in the life of members of a troupe of circus performers. The circus is named Il Floriciccio. Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
Miss Universe 1929 – Lisl Goldarbeiter. A Queen in Wien ( 2006)
Lisl, who grew up in Vienna in modest circumstances, first won the title of Miss Austria in 1929 Read More »
The Stationmaster (1940) Gustav Ucicky, Heinrich George
A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer. Read More »
Marika / Kind der Donau (1950) Georg Jacoby, Marika Rökk, Fred Liewehr, Harry Fuß
Three itinerant writers stage an open-air theatre production with Marika (Marika Rokk) as the star. Read More »
Fever / Fieber (2014) Elfi Mikesch, Carolina Cardoso, Eva Mattes, Martin Wuttke
A photographer is haunted by memories from his childhood and goes Read More »
The Wonder Kid / Wonder Boy (1951) Karl Hartl, Bobby Henrey, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Muriel Aked
The old one about the much-exploited child prodigy is given a new coat of paint in the English-Austrian Entfuhrag ins Gluck (Wonder Child). Read More »
Stolen Identity (1953) Gunther von Fritsch, Donald Buka, Joan Camden, Francis Lederer
A jealous concert pianist murders his wife’s lover, then frames an innocent taxi driver for the crime. Read More »
Egon Schiele – Exzesse / Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Herbert Vesely, Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women. Read More »
Abenteuer in Wien / Adventures in Vienna (1952) Emil E. Reinert, Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner
In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »
Wagner (1983) Tony Palmer, Richard Burton
A huge panorama of Richard Wagner’s life and work, from before the 1848 revolution Read More »