THE TOBACCONIST
The Tobacconist is undoubtedly an interesting feature film, but it gets lost in the many paths it decides to take. And not even the presence of Bruno Ganz or a cameo by the great Erni Mangold can do much.
Actor: Erni Mangold
DIE WELTMASCHINE
Die Weltmaschine is a true hymn to life, freedom and art in all its forms. Erni Mangold proved to be the perfect protagonist, one could even say that the leading role was written with her in mind. One of the first films in which Christoph Waltz took part.
ERNI MANGOLD – LIVELY MAVERICK
On January 26, 2022, Erni Mangold will celebrate her 95th birthday. Active for more than seventy years and decidedly tireless, the actress has recently published a book of photographs inspired by her extraordinary life: Sagen Sie, was Sie denken: Mein Leben in Bildern.
DREI HERREN
Surreal, bizarre, but also tender and rather naïve, Drei Herren is certainly not a perfect feature film. And yet, as we get closer to the finale, each character turns out to be much more complex and multifaceted than it might initially seem.
EVA
Eva – made by Rolf Thiele in 1959 and the last Austrian film with Romy Schneider – has the feel of a comedy by Vincente Minnelli, by Robert Wise or even by George Cuckor.
MURER: ANATOMY OF A TRIAL
In Murer: Anatomy of a Trial, Christian Frosch, in staging the trial of the Nazi criminal Franz Murer with a composed and rightly balanced direction, openly points the finger at his own nation and at Austrian society of yesterday and today.
THE ANGEL WITH THE TRUMPET
The Angel with the Trumpet, the successful feature film by Karl Hartl from 1948 and freely adapted from the novel The Vienna Melody, written by Ernst Lothar in 1946, is a family saga and faithful portrait of around sixty years of Austrian history, which successfully mixes the two different points of view – that of Hartl himself, as well as the point of view from the original novel.