''Vienna, City of My Dreams'' (German: ''Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume'') is a 1957 Austrian

musical comedy film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as break ...

directed by

Willi Forst Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German language, German-speaking film audiences, as ...

and starring

Adrian Hoven Adrian Hoven (18 May 1922 – 28 April 1981) was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981. He was born in Wöllersdorf, Austria as ''Wilhelm Arpad Hofkirchner'' and died in Tegernsee, We ...

, Erika Remberg and

Hertha Feiler Hertha Feiler (3 August 1916, Vienna – 1 November 1970, Munich) was an Austrian actress. She was married to the comedian Heinz Rühmann with whom she starred in several films. She was of Jewish descent. Filmography References External links ...

.Reimer & Reimer p.44 The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

s Isabella Schlichting and

Werner Schlichting Werner Schlichting (1904–1996) was a German art director who worked on over a hundred films during a lengthy career. He worked on a number of Austrian films including '' The Congress Dances'' and '' The Last Ten Days'' (1955).Fritsche p.253 Sel ...

Cast

as Peter Lehnert, Musikprofessor * Erika Remberg as Sandra, Prinzessin von Alanien *

as Elisabeth Seyboldt * Hans Holt as Alexander I., König von Alanien *

Paul Hörbiger Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrians, Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the ...

as Vater Lehnert * Alma Seidler as Mutter Lehnert * Oskar Sima as von Trotum - Gesandter *

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 Klara von Trotum * Richard Romanowsky as Katzelseder - Sektionschef * Lilly Stepanek as Frau von Waldegg *

Erwin Strahl Erwin Strahl (12 February 1929 – 20 April 2011) was an Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, state ...

as Mirko, ein alanischer Emissär * Hannes Schiel as Oberstleutnant Morosos * Peter Brand as Chauffeur der Gesandtschaft * Alfred Böhm as Polizist * Otto Fassler as Konzertmeister * Peter Fröhlich as Reporter * Peter Gerhard as Empfangschef * Hugo Gottschlich as Bauarbeiter * Fred Hennings as Polizeipräsident *

Fritz Imhoff Fritz Imhoff, real name: Friedrich Arnold Heinrich Jeschke (January 6, 1891, Alsergrund February 24, 1961, Wieden) was an Austrian actor. He was a brother of the Wienerlied composer (18901962). Selected filmography * '' Daughter of the Re ...

* Herbert Kersten as Sekretär der Gesandtschaft * Fritz Muliar as Spöttischer Passant * Auguste Ripper as Blumenfrau * Walter Simmerl as Bezechter *

Otto Treßler Otto Treßler, also Otto Tressler, (13 April 1871 – 27 April 1965) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1915 and 1962. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Vienna, Austria. He was a ...

as Fürst Vitus

References

Bibliography

* Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. ''The A to Z of German Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

* 1957 films 1957 musical comedy films Austrian musical comedy films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Willi Forst Films set in Vienna German-language musical comedy films {{1950s-Austria-film-stub