Willi Forst Archive | Cinema Austriaco

WILLI FORST – MAGNIFICENT VIENNA

Thanks to director Willi Forst, the glorious Wiener Films were appreciated all over the world. Thanks to him, we can still laugh, be moved and dream before a tender love story in the magical city of Vienna.

MASKERADE

Presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival 1934, Maskerade won the Best Screenplay Award. While following the canons of the Wiener Films, with a story set in the world of the upper middle class, its splendour, sumptuous costumes and music, both Willi Forst and screenwriter Walter Reisch wanted to give the whole thing a different touch, pointing the finger at a hypocritical and decadent society reminiscent of Arthur Schnitzler’s works.