Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934 film)

Tales from the Vienna Woods (German: G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a 1934 Austrian musical film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Magda Schneider, Wolf Albach-Retty and Leo Slezak.^[1] The title refers to the waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss.

Tales from the Vienna Woods
Film poster
German	G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Mary Stephans
Starring	Magda Schneider Wolf Albach-Retty Leo Slezak
Cinematography	Werner Brandes
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production companies	Bosser-Films Mondial-Film
Distributed by	Lux-Film Wien Siegel-Monopolfilm (Germany)
Release date	27 September 1934 (1934-09-27)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

Cast

• Magda Schneider as Milly Scheffers
• Wolf Albach-Retty as Graf Rudi von Waldheim
• Leo Slezak as Alois Jeremias Schopf
• Georg Alexander as Prince Kiriloff
• Truus Van Aalten as Mary Limford
• Oscar Sabo as Pomeisl
• Henry Lorenzen as Bobby Limford
• Lotte Lang
• Herbert Hübner
• Karl Kneidinger
• Eduard Loibner
• Karl Zeska
• Karl Bachmann

Reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, complaining primarily about the acting of Magda Schneider. Greene claimed that Slezak's "magnificent buffoonery tries to save the film," but concluded that "Austrian films are born dead: horrible bright fakes from a ruined country, libellous laughter".^[2]