Elfriede Datzig

ViennaFilm 1896-1976 (1977)

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd "image of Vienna" such as that found in the traditional "Vienna Film" by juxtaposing documentary footage, newly shot m ...

The False Bride (1945)

There's only one way for the farmer Assbichler to save his farm from ruin: he has to marry off his son Toni to the pretty Rosl, the daughter of the rich farmer Pius Mang. Mang, however, wants his daughter to marry a well-off man; and so Assbichler has to ...

Sieben Briefe (1944)

Schwarz auf weiß (1943)

Vienna, around 1900. The master baker Streussler's most ardent wish is to see his daughter Nelly as a student at the university. With the help of his famous "streusel cake" he succeeds in luring all kinds of helpers for this endeavor into his house. But ...

Trip Acquaintance (1943)

A nervous private investigator, his bumbling boss, a woman in love, 10,000 Reichsmark and two reversed cases. A crime comedy directed by E. W. Emo. ...

Der ewige Klang (1943)

1943 German film. ...

Der Ochsenkrieg (1943)

Die heimliche Gräfin (1942)

A comedy of confusion in aristocratic Vienna at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century: The young Bohemian Countess Antschi Dorival trades places with her friend Martina, because she wants to become an actress and applies as such at the city theatre un ...

The Waitress Anna (1941)

Against the wishes of his adoptive father, Stefan Burgstaller decides to become a musician. He goes to Salzburg, where his girlfriend Veronika is already attending the conservatory. Stefan is also accepted at the school and even receives a scholarship beca ...

Dreimal Hochzeit (1941)

Prince Alexander loves the commoner Vera and defies his uncle the Tzar as well as his peers by arranging his wedding. But Vera leaves him because she does not want to be the cause of him spending the rest of his life as a social outcast. ...

Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (1940)

Gretl has been living in Vienna ever since her father, Klaghofer, a small general store owner, tried to marry her off against her will to the wealthy Gruber farmer. Her disgruntled father never opened a single one of her letters. A postcard tells him that ...

Anthony the Last (1939)

A grumpy valet takes corrective action with mumbling peevishness in the fortunes of his family household count. ...

Hotel Sacher (1939)

Vienna is celebrating New Year's Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there's an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in ...

The Restless Girls (1938)

Four orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in a flat and look for work to be able to finance her study. Two make the acquaintance of a frivolous young baron. One shoots in her outrage at him, nevertheless, ...