Tales from the Vienna Woods

Tales from the Vienna Woods

91 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1979

Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.

Tales from the Vienna Woods

91 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1979

Tales from the Vienna Woods
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Bayerischer Rundfunk, Solaris Film, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, MFG-Film
Original title Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
Directors Maximilian Schell
Writers Ödön von Horváth, Christopher Hampton, Maximilian Schell

Cast

Helmut Qualtinger

as Zauberkönig

Birgit Doll

as Marianne

Hanno Pöschl

as Alfred

Jane Tilden

as Valerie

André Heller

as Hierlinger

Adrienne Gessner

as Alfred's Grandmother

Götz Kauffmann

as Oskar

Norbert Schiller

as Rittmeister

Robert Meyer

as Erich

Martha Wallner

as Alfred's Mother

Walter Schmidinger

as Conférencier

Elisabeth Epp

as Baroness

Lil Dagover

as Helene

Vadim Glowna

as Priest

Maximilian Schell

as Theatre Visitor