Today, outside Austria, few people remember Trude Marlen, if not as the second wife of the actor Wolf Albach-Retty, father of Romy Schneider. Yet thanks to her versatility and ability to relate to all kinds of roles, the actress was for a long time considered one of the most important performers of the 1930s and 1940s.
I Love Vienna presents itself as a colourful and cheerful fresco of society, in which controversial topics are raised – especially concerning the various cultural differences and the different ways of understanding marriage and love relationships in general – but all this is done in an ironic way, through a skilful script that sees numerous misunderstandings and paradoxes as its most important peculiarities.