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Kaiserjäger (1956)
Nice movie for an evening with the family
Kaiserjaeger, made by Willy Forst is a harmless film for the whole family. The plot is playing in the Tyrol, one of the provinces of Austria at the beginning of the 20th century. The very beautiful landscape is one of the most important elements of the film. Although the story is nothing very special there are some very good actors playing like Attila Hoerbiger one of the most famous German speaking actors of that time. A mixture of beautiful landscape, the glory time of the Austrian monarchy and its army, love and humor.
1. April 2000 (1952)
Not only a film, a demonstration
1. April 2000 is a political science-fiction comedy, which was made to show the situation of Austria in the early fifties. At that time Austria was occupied by the four powers, USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet-Union but had an own government. For 7 years this government had tried to become fully independent again. The film shows the situation of Austria and the world nearly 50 years later in a very humorous way. At our time its really funny how they thought at that time the world would be. The four powers were still ruling over Austria and the prime minister proclaimed independence. So the court was siting together over the whole country and the prime minister showed the history of the last thousand years. The actors playing in the film were the who is who of Austrian actors.
Austria got a state-contract two years later, so situation changed. Today the film is not only a film over the history of Austria it is a part of this history itself. Maybe something for April, 1st 2000
Die unentschuldigte Stunde (1957)
Typical Austrian Comedy of the late 50th.
Die unentschuldigte Stunde is a typical comedy of the 50th, directed by one of the best Austrian directors of that time Mr. Willy Forst. The plot is, that a high school girl (Erika Remberg)claims to be ill because she has not learned enough for a chemical exam. Because her doctor is ill by himself a young doctor (Adrian Hoven) visits her, but he doesn´t confirm her illness for the teacher. The fall in love, the marry and she leaves the school.
When the final class begins the young husband becomes a professor at the university, and his wife goes back to school. But nobody my know about her marriage in school and about her studies at home.
Excellent actors like Josef Meinrad, Elisabeth Epp, Erik Frey and the famous Hans Moser.
Hokuspokus (1953)
Excellent Movie with elements of drama and comedy
Hokuspokus written by Curt Goetz, who also played the leading character is one of the movies playing in a court-room.
Goetz plays Peer Bille a layer who defends a widow, who is suspected to have murdered her husband the artist Hjilmar Kjerulf. Although everybody believes that Agda (played by Goetz´ real life wife Vallerie von Martens) is guilty Bille shows the court that all the proofs can be interpreted in the opposite way.
The end is more than a surprise.
In the sixties there was a remake done with one of the most famous German actors, Heinz Ruehmann. Although Ruehmann is one of the best the remake is not half as good as the original.