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A series of short films and fragments from the work of Austrian film pioneers between 1908 and 1918 are gathered here around the completely preserved crime thriller FRAUENEHRE by Georg Kundert: A frivolous piece like DAS EITLE STUBENMÄDCHEN shows that early cinema was more permissive than is often assumed; a melodrama like DIE ZIRKUSGRÄFIN demonstrates the ideas of exoticism that existed during these years; the cheerful propaganda film WIEN IM KRIEG makes the First World War bearable, especially for the "modern Weanamadeln"; and the Anzengruber adaptation EIN DOPPELSELBSTMORD searches for ways out of patriarchal entrenchment. For this compilation, Florian C. Reithner has created a new soundtrack full of contemporary references.
"Homegrown film pioneers worked in no small part toward a loosening of mores that certainly didn't hurt Austria." BERT REBHANDL
Cast
Franz Xaver Wamperl, Fritz Kortner and many more
Director
Johann Schwarzer, Felix Dörmann, Hans Otto Löwenstein, Josef Zeitlinger & Rudolf J. Walter, Fritz Freisler & Heinz Hanus, Jakob Fleck & Louise Kolm, Georg Kundert
Staff
MUSIC: Florian C. Reithner
Recording: Kreuzberg Chamber Orchestra;
Reeds: Doris Nicoletti, Erhan Mamudoski, Leonard Eröd, Franz Oberthaler, Gerald Selig; Trompete, Wing Horn: Tobias Karall; Posaune: Ewald Edbrustner, Lisa Puhr
Violin: Veronika Blahous;
Violoncello: Ivan Turkalj;
Guitar: Manuel Mayr;
Piano, Accordion, Organ: Florian C. Reithner;
Drums: Rupert Blahous;
Contrabass: Emily Smejkal;
Production Management: Rupert Blahous
