''Salzburg Stories'' (German: ''Salzburger Geschichten'') is a 1957 West German
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer.
His 1958 film ''W ...
and starring
Marianne Koch
Marianne Koch (; born 19 August 1931) is a German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.
Career
Betwee ...
,
Paul Hubschmid
Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens ...
and
Peter Mosbacher
Peter Mosbacher (1912–1977) was a German stage, film and television actor.Goble p.252
Selected filmography
* ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943)
* '' The Last Night'' (1949)
* ''The Prisoner'' (1949)
* ''Two Times Lotte'' (1950)
* ''Harbour Mel ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.253] It was shot at the
Bavaria Studios
Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film.
History
The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Firs ...
in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
. 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 ...
Ludwig Reiber
Ludwig Reiber (1904–1979) was a German art director.Capua p.159 The veteran Reiber worked on film and television set design from the silent era to the early 1970s. He was employed by the Munich-based Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios. He wor ...
.
Cast
*
Marianne Koch
Marianne Koch (; born 19 August 1931) is a German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.
Career
Betwee ...
as Konstanze
*
Paul Hubschmid
Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens ...
as Georg
*
Peter Mosbacher
Peter Mosbacher (1912–1977) was a German stage, film and television actor.Goble p.252
Selected filmography
* ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943)
* '' The Last Night'' (1949)
* ''The Prisoner'' (1949)
* ''Two Times Lotte'' (1950)
* ''Harbour Mel ...
as Karl
*
Richard Romanowsky
Richard Romanowsky (21 April 1883 – 22 July 1968) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1932 and 1961.
Selected filmography
* ''Two in a Car'' (1932)
* '' Adventure on the Southern Express'' (1934)
* '' Farewell Waltz'' ...
as Leopold
*
Adrienne Gessner
Adrienne Gessner (23 July 1896 – 23 June 1987) was an Austrian actress. Gessner appeared in over fifty film and television shows during her career, including the 1955 costume film '. Gessner appeared in a mixture of German and Austrian films dur ...
as Karoline
*
Eva Maria Meineke
Eva Maria Meineke (8 October 1923 - 7 May 2018) was a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 2008, including ''Yesterday Girl'' and ''Something for Everyone
''Something for Everyone'' is a 1970 American blac ...
as Emily
*
Helmuth Lohner
Helmuth Lohner (24 April 1933 – 23 June 2015) was an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 1997 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt.
Early life
Born in Vienna, Lohner initially trained as a commercial artist, while also taki ...
as Franz
*
Frank Holms as Bob
*
Anneliese Egerer as Mizzi
*
Otto Storr
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fr ...
as Mr. Namarra
*
Michl Lang
Michl Lang (16 January 1899 – 21 December 1979) was a German stage and film actorGoble p.457
Selected filmography
* ''The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936)
* '' Geheimakte W.B.1'' (1942)
* ''A Heart Beats for You'' (1949)
* ''King for One Night'' (195 ...
as Bootsführer auf dem Königssee
*
Claire Reigbert
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*Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire
* Clair (surname)
Places
Canada
* Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska
* Clair Parish, New Brunswick
* Pointe-Claire, Q ...
as Mrs. Namarra
*
Franzl Lang
Franz "Franzl" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the ''Yodel King'' (german: Jodlerkönig), was an alpine yodeller from Bavaria, Germany.
Lang's genre is German folk music; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the ru ...
as Jodler
*
Liesl Karlstadt
Liesl Karlstadt (; born Elisabeth Wellano, 12 December 1892 – 27 June 1960) was a German actress and cabaret performer. Alongside Karl Valentin, she set the tone for a generation of popular culture in Munich. She appeared in more than 70 f ...
as Vroni
*
Franz-Otto Krüger
Franz-Otto Krüger (1 April 1917 – 17 March 1988) was a German film and television actor. Krüger already started his acting at Berlin theatres in 1934, but his career was interrupted by his service in the Second World War. He appeared in over ...
as Hotelmanager
*
Theodor Danegger
Theodor Danegger (31 August 1891 – 11 October 1959) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1932 and 1959. He was born in Lienz, Austria and died in Vienna, Austria.
Selected filmography
* ''Without Witnesse ...
as Kellner
*
Karl Hanft
Karl Hanft (25 July 1904 – 2 February 1982) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Shock Troop (film), Shock Troop'' (1934)
* ''Enemies (1940 film), Enemies'' (1940)
* ''The Endless Road'' (1943)
* ''Tonelli (film), Tonelli'' (194 ...
as Ferdl
*
Petra Unkel
Petra Unkel (3 March 1925 – 2001), also known as Petra Unkel-Klinder, was a Hungarian-born actress of German film, singer, voice actress, radio spokesperson and cabaret artist, who was active in the industry from 1929 until 1958.
Life and car ...
*
José Held as Pianist
*
Vera Complojer
Vera Complojer (1896–1969) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Giesen p.231
Selected filmography
* ''Maria Ilona'' (1939)
* '' Her First Experience'' (1939)
* ''Detours to Happiness'' (1939)
* ''Wunschkonzert'' (1940)
* '' The Sinful Village ...
as Marktfrau
See also
*''
A Salzburg Comedy
''A Salzburg Comedy'' or ''Little Border Traffic'' (german: Der kleine Grenzverkehr) is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Willy Fritsch, Hertha Feiler and Heinz Salfner.Rentschler p. 380 Erich Kästner wrote the sc ...
'' (1943)
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1957 films
1957 romantic comedy films
German romantic comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Kurt Hoffmann
Films based on German novels
Films based on works by Erich Kästner
Remakes of German films
Films set in Salzburg
Films set in the 1930s
Constantin Film films
Films shot at Bavaria Studios
1950s German films
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