''Call of the Forest'' (German: ''Ruf der Wälder'') is a 1965 Austrian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Franz Antel
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the ...
and starring
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (born 28 January 1942) is a German former pair skater, actor, and Schlager singer.
Career
Bäumler became famous in pair skating with his skating partner Marika Kilius. Between 1958 and 1964, they won the German nation ...
,
Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtim ...
and
Gerhard Riedmann
Gerhard Riedmann (1925–2004) was an Austrian film actor. He was married to the actress Eva Probst.
Partial filmography
* ''Das andere Leben'' (1948) - (uncredited)
* ''Child of the Danube'' (1950) - Bit Part (uncredited)
* ' (1951) - Max' Freu ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.374] It is part of the popular tradition of
heimatfilm
' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. ''Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or "homela ...
.
It was made at the
Sievering Studios
Sievering Studios were film production studios located in Sievering, a suburb of the Austrian capital Vienna.
The studios were established in 1916 by the film pioneer Alexander Kolowrat for use by his Sascha-Film. After the First World War they f ...
in
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and
on location in the Alpine resort of
Kaprun
Kaprun () is a municipality in the Zell am See District in the state of Salzburg, Austria. The town is a tourist destination known as "Zell am See-Kaprun" with the neighbouring Zell am See and known for the glacier Kitzsteinhorn.
Geography
It is ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Otto Pischinger
Otto Pischinger (1919–1976) was an Austrian art director who designed the sets for a large number of films during his career. In 1955 he worked on '' The Last Ten Days''.Silberman p.243 He was married to Hertha Hareiter, also an art director, un ...
.
Cast
*
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (born 28 January 1942) is a German former pair skater, actor, and Schlager singer.
Career
Bäumler became famous in pair skating with his skating partner Marika Kilius. Between 1958 and 1964, they won the German nation ...
as Bernd Helwig
*
Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtim ...
as Marcello Scalzi
*
Gerhard Riedmann
Gerhard Riedmann (1925–2004) was an Austrian film actor. He was married to the actress Eva Probst.
Partial filmography
* ''Das andere Leben'' (1948) - (uncredited)
* ''Child of the Danube'' (1950) - Bit Part (uncredited)
* ' (1951) - Max' Freu ...
as Mathias
*
Johanna Matz
Johanna Matz (born 5 October 1932, in Vienna) is an Austrian film actress. She began as a dancer and later acted at the Burgtheater.
Selected filmography
* '' Maria Theresa'' (1951)
* '' Season in Salzburg'' (1952)
* ''The White Horse Inn'' (19 ...
as Angelika Hirt
*
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor.
Life and work
Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ...
as Gustl Wegrainer
*
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Florentine'' (1937)
* ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922
* ''Krambambuli'' ( ...
as Ingenieur Prachner
*
Ellen Farner
Ellen Farner (born 1941 in Germany) is a former actress and model, active between 1962 and 1970, best known for her role in ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964).
Career
Prior to her film debut, Farner made at least one notable stage appearance i ...
as Petra
*
Rolf Olsen as Kubesch
*
Judith Dornys
Judith Dornys was a Hungarian-born Canadian dancer and film actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Ramona (1961 film), Ramona'' (1961)
* ''The Curse of the Hidden Vault'' (1964)
* ''Call of the Forest (1965 film), Call of the Forest'' (1965)
* ''The Sw ...
as Tina
*
Franz Muxeneder
Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 - 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987.
Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series ''The White Hor ...
as Pepi Nindl
*
Raoul Retzer
Raoul Retzer (1919–1974) was an Austrian actor. Retzer was a prolific film actor appearing in more than a hundred and forty productions between 1952 and 1975 generally in small or supporting roles. He appeared in the 1955 film ''The Last Ten Day ...
as Zingerl
*
Eva Kinsky
Eva or EVA may refer to:
* Eva (name), a feminine given name
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
* Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment
* Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in t ...
as Lucie
*
Erich Padalewski
Erich Padalewski (1930–2018) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor.Schliesser & Moser p.83
Selected filmography
* '' Dance with Me Into the Morning'' (1962)
* ''Our Crazy Nieces'' (1963)
* ''Don't Fool with Me'' (1963)
* '' Call of ...
as Felix
*
Elisabeth Stiepl
Elisabeth Stiepl (born 1920) is an Austrian former film and television actress.Cowie p.66 As a character actress, she appeared in more than ninety film and TV productions during her career in small or supporting parts.
Selected filmography
* '' D ...
as Hofrätin
References
Bibliography
* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books.
External links
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1965 films
1965 drama films
Austrian drama films
1960s German-language films
Films directed by Franz Antel
Films set in the Alps
Films set in forests
Films shot at Sievering Studios
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