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 »
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A Blonde Dream / 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 »
Die Sünderin / The Sinner (1951)
Marina, a prostitute, lives with the unsuccessful artist Alexander. Read More »
Lover Divine / Leise flehen meine Lieder (1933) Willi Forst, Mártha Eggerth, Luise Ullrich, Hans Jaray
Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. Read More »
End of an Affair / 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 »
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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