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. The title refers to the waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss.
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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".