Vienna, City of My Dreams (1957)

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Country: Austria
Genres: Comedy, Music
Release: 1958-05-05
Director: Willi Forst
Writers: Willi Forst , Joos De Ridder , Hans Rameau
Language: German
Stars: Adrian Hoven , Erika Remberg , Hertha Feiler , Hans Holt , Paul Hörbiger , Alma Seidler , Oskar Sima , Jane Tilden , Richard Romanowsky , Lilly Stepanek
Runtime: 104 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Vienna Vienna (Italy) , Viena de mis ensueños (Mexico) , Bécs, álmaim városa (Hungary) , Vienna, City of My Dreams , La ciudad de mis sueños (Spain) , Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Austria) , Wien, unelmieni kaupunki (Finland) , Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume , Wien, mine drømmes by (Denmark) , Wenen, stad mijner dromen (Belgium) , Wiedeń, miasto moich marzeń (Poland) , Someone Will Make You Smile , Wien, mina drömmars stad (Sweden)
Plot: This last film of director Willi Forst is his melancholy view on a modernizing Vienna and his longing for a more gracious world. He mocks the tourist industry in the Vienna-in-24-hours sequence including a reference to Carol Reed's "The Third Man". There are some other nice ideas in the script, but most of them take too long and/or are not elaborated well-enough; as a whole the writing is mediocre. Fortunately Forst had a fine cast that makes the best of things, although Adrian Hoven's presence is non-descript.More importantly the film misses the old Schwung,the Forst style, the former light touch of Forst. It is a very uneasy film of a tired and disillusioned man who had lost interest and in whom the audiences had lost any interest. As Forst himself said after completing this film: my style is not wanted anymore, it is better to go than to be asked to leave. The film is a sad Servuß of a very fine director.
IMDB:tt0051192