Ernst Marischka
Country: Austria
Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Director), 18 (Writer)
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16 year old princess Elisabeth, 'Sissi', follows her mother and sister Helene to the Austrian court in Ischl, where the engagement between Helene and the young emperor Franz Josef will be announced. But he meets Sissi when she's out fishing and falls in love with her. Sissi loves Franz Josef but a marriage with him comes with a bonus, his arrogant and headstrong mother. (imdb)
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Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland. (imdb)
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Sissi is slowly adapting to life as empress of Austria but finds it hard to live with her mother-in-law. The arch-duchess Sophie is a genuine busybody who constantly interferes with how the emperor rules the empire and how Sissi brings up her first-born daughter. (imdb)
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In what has become the last part of the Sissi trilogy, the young empress becomes heavily ill and has to go to Corfu, thus separating her from her baby girl. She gets to see her child again in Venice, and in doing so she conveniently captures the hearts of the hostile Italians. (mine)
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Vienna, end of the 19th century: A young girl meets a soldier of the famous "Deutschmeister"-regiment and they fall in love. She tries to help her new boyfriend, who is a composer of a march, and smuggles the sheet music to the emperor for whom her aunt is the baker.
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A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared. (imdb)
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Riccardo Gatti, an Italian opera singer and lover-divine with voice to match, is the idol of all the women in Vienna,and is the man every woman after. So, what's the deal with Mary Newberg, who keeps running away from him and Gatti has to run after her? (imdb)
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Die verliebte Firma was Max Ophüls' first feature film. The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her. (imdb)
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René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragile Denise, who wants to be a singer as himself, and they fall in love. Yet when she finds out her real condition she takes a drastic decision which will determine their fates. La Bohème arias, and more. (imdb)
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Austria's first feature-length motion picture, a collage of the most successful stage roles of a celebrated operetta comedian, which aimed to advertise the artistic potential of the new and controversial medium of film.
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Eva is employed in a porcelain factory owned by Georg von Hochheim's grandmother, who asks him to take over the company and try to put it back into profitability. He takes on the project in the guise of a worker and falls in love with Eva. When his true identity becomes known, his motives and intentions are questioned. (imdb)
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19th century England: Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. She is to get married to a German prince, Albert. But Victoria sees her future differently and decides to leave London for Paris...
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A heavily fictionalized account of the life of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (17561791).
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A nostalgic story about live in and around a classic Vienna's coffee house. (imdb)
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A rookie detective's first case is to observe an engineer, but she behaves so clumsily in her job, that she's mistaken for a thief and con artist.
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Julia, who is a cashier at a piano factory, goes on a vacation trip with some friends. Her boss discovers at the same time that there is money missing.
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The plot from the famous Johann Strauss operetta adapted as a comedy film with most of the songs left out.
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An impoverished count has to work as a chauffeur but because of his good looks attracts women, one of them wealthy enough to solve his problem.
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