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Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Tales from the Vienna Woods' (German: 'G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald') is a 1934 Austrian musical film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Magda Schneider, Wolf Albach-Retty and Leo Slezak. The title refers to the waltz 'Tales from the Vienna Woods' by Johann Strauss.
Cast
*Magda Schneider as Milly Scheffers
*Wolf Albach-Retty as Graf Rudi von Waldheim
*Leo Slezak as Alois Jeremias Schopf
*Georg Alexander as Prince Kiriloff
*Truus Van Aalten as Mary Limford
*Oscar Sabo as Pomeisl
*Henry Lorenzen as Bobby Limford
*Lotte Lang
*Herbert Hbner
*Eduard Loibner
*Karl Zeska
*Karl Bachmann
*Karl Kneidinger
Reception
Writing for 'Night and Day' in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, complaining primarily about the acting of Magda Schneider. Greene claimed that Slezak's "magnificent buffoonery tries to save the film," but Greene concluded that "Austrian films are born dead: horrible bright fakes from a ruined country, libellous laughter". (reprinted in:
References
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