New Tales of Franz hits the mark. And it does so with a minimal running time and captivating editing, bringing to the movie screen a compendium of friendship, courage and consistency that is certainly educational and pedagogical for the audience for whom it was intended.
In Who is Afraid of Hitler’s Town? director Günter Schweiger tells a controversial story using many, perhaps too many, points of view. As a result, the possible interesting story lines are unfortunately excessively weak and do not provide the opportunity for deeper reflection or analysis.
Maria Hofstätter has always distinguished herself by her constant search for interesting roles, for herself and for the audience. Every role, for her, must be a chance to give vent to one’s feelings, safe in the certainty that someone will be listening. Great protagonist, together with Ulrich Seidl, of the 2001 and 2012 Venice Film Festival.
Ernst Marischka’s Two in a Car perfectly embodies the mood of the melodramatic but nonetheless entertaining post-World War II Wiener Films, also proving to be a witty portrait of the society of the time.
Willi Forst’s fictional, black-and-white version of the life of composer Franz Schubert in Lover Divine is a work that embodies the romantic Zeitgeist of the 19th century more than ever before.
Having taken part in almost 150 feature and TV films, having written 21 screenplays, having embarked on a career as a doctor and having also founded a car manufacturer at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, Gunther Philipp is today considered one of Austria’s most versatile talents.
Produced by the legendary Viennese production company Sascha-Film, a pioneer of silent films and the first sound films made in Austria, the amusing musical comedy Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby also confirms the successful harmony between a series of actors with theatrical and musical backgrounds.
Perfectly at ease in both comedies and dramas, the charismatic Elyas M’Barek is one of the most popular actors in German-speaking cinema (and beyond) today.
The life of legendary actress Christiane Hörbiger (1938 – 2022) was this: theatre, television, film and even a foray into publishing. A life undoubtedly full of satisfaction, but also with many challenges.
The Neue Sachlichkeit provided a return to objective reality, paying a pure attention to the world, free from the sentimentalism and idealism of Expressionism, from which it attempted to detach itself. And like any artistic movement, this current too, in its albeit short life, managed to span several disciplines, leaving its mark in all fields, from graphics to film.