Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934 film)

Tales from the Vienna Woods
Tales from the Vienna Woods
	Film poster
German	G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Mary Stephans
Starring	Magda Schneider; Wolf Albach-Retty; Leo Slezak
Cinematography	Werner Brandes
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production; companies	Bosser-Films; Mondial-Film
Distributed by	Lux-Film Wien; Siegel-Monopolfilm (Germany)
Release date	27 September 1934;
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

Tales from the Vienna Woods (German: G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a 1934 Austrian musical film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Magda Schneider, Wolf Albach-Retty and Leo Slezak.^[1] The title refers to the waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss.

Cast

Magda Schneider as Milly Scheffers
Wolf Albach-Retty as Graf Rudi von Waldheim
Leo Slezak as Alois Jeremias Schopf
Georg Alexander as Prince Kiriloff
Truus Van Aalten as Mary Limford
Oscar Sabo as Pomeisl
Henry Lorenzen as Bobby Limford
Lotte Lang
Herbert Hübner
Karl Kneidinger
Eduard Loibner
Karl Zeska
Karl Bachmann

Reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, complaining primarily about the acting of Magda Schneider. Greene claimed that Slezak's "magnificent buffoonery tries to save the film," but concluded that "Austrian films are born dead: horrible bright fakes from a ruined country, libellous laughter".^[2]

References

^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 223. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.
^ Greene, Graham (14 October 1937). "Big City/Tales from the Vienna Woods/Children at School". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0192812866.

External links

Tales from the Vienna Woods at IMDb

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[1] Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 223. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.

[2] Greene, Graham (14 October 1937). "Big City/Tales from the Vienna Woods/Children at School". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0192812866.

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