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His first major role was opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent film Café Elektric in 1927. However, he was best known for his characters in light musicals, which rapidly made him a star. He developed the genre of the Viennese Film with writer Walter Reisch in the 1930s, beginning with the Franz Schubert melodrama Leise flehen meine Lieder ...
Aug 11, 2021 · Willi Forst, more than anyone else, ensured that the Wiener Films could have a good international resonance. Willi Forst, with his unmistakable style and almost perfect stagings, almost gave birth to a new film genre in Austria.
May 5, 2006 · Forst followed the immense success of Operette two years later with the second of his Wien-Film trilogy, this time based on an actual operetta, Wiener Blut, which was created posthumously from Strauss’s music. Forst was again director, writer and producer, and brought on Jan Stallich as cinematographer and Schmidt-Gentner as music director.
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Willi Forst is one of the most significant directors of Wiener Film, and made what is generally reckoned to be the best of the genre, the 1935 film Maskerade. The success of Wiener Film inspired Berlin to imitate the genre, substituting the Prussian court for that of the Habsburg monarchy and moving the setting from Vienna to Berlin.
WILLI FORST – MAGNIFICENT VIENNA. Thanks to director Willi Forst, the glorious Wiener Films were appreciated all over the world. Thanks to him, we can still laugh, be moved and dream before a tender love story in the magical city of Vienna.
Sep 10, 2020 · by Willi Forst grade: 8 Presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival 1934, Maskerade won the Best Screenplay Award. While following the canons of the Wiener Films, with a story set in the world of the upper middle class, its splendour, sumptuous costumes and music, both Willi Forst and screenwriter Walter Reisch wanted to give the whole ...
Maskerade (film) Maskerade (also known as Maskerade in Wien, English: Masquerade or Masquerade in Vienna ), is an Austrian operetta film, and a classic of German language cinema. The exceptional script of this, a great example of the genre of the Wiener Film, was by Walter Reisch and Willi Forst, who also directed.
