Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979 film)
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''Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (german: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a 1979 Austrian-German
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 ...
directed by Maximilian Schell. The film was adapted from the play by
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. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the
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at the
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, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences It was the final film for veteran actress Lil Dagover who started her film career in the 1910s.


Plot

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.


Cast

* Birgit Doll as Marianne * Hanno Pöschl as Alfred *
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as Zauberkönig *
Jane Tilden Jane Tilden, born as Marianne Wilhelmine Tuch, (1910–2002) was an Austrian actress who enjoyed a long career on stage and in films and television shows. She was born as Marianne Tuch in Aussig, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was ...
as Valerie *
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 Alfred's Grandmother *
Götz Kauffmann Götz Kauffmann (15 January 1949 – 26 January 2010) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor, cabaret artist and writer. Life Gottfried Maria Kauffman was born in the fifteenth district of Vienna. His father was the noted Vienna or ...
as Oskar *
André Heller Franz André Heller (; born 22 March 1947 as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart) is an Austrian artist, author, poet, singer, songwriter and actor. Biography Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufac ...
as Hierlinger * Norbert Schiller as Rittmeister *
Eric Pohlmann Eric Pohlmann (german: Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, th ...
as Mister *
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as Erich * Lil Dagover (in her last film role) as Helene * Martha Wallner as Alfred's Mother


See also

*
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*
List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Austria has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outsi ...


References


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* 1979 films 1979 drama films Austrian drama films West German films 1970s German-language films Films directed by Maximilian Schell Austrian films based on plays Films set in 1929 Films set in 1930 Films set in 1931 Constantin Film films German drama films 1970s German films {{1970s-drama-film-stub