Cordula (film)

Cordula
Paula Wessely and Attila Hörbiger
Directed by Gustav Ucicky
Produced by Paula Wessely
Written by Anton Wildgans (poem)
Max Mell
Gustav Ucicky
Starring Paula Wessely
Attila Hörbiger
Jane Tilden
Music by Josef Marx
Cinematography Hans Schneeberger
Edited by Henny Brünsch
Production
company
Paula Wessely Filmproduktion
Distributed by Sascha Film
Union-Film (West Germany)
Release date
 23 October 1950
Running time
 103 minutes
Country Austria
Language German

Cordula is a 1950 Austrian drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Paula Wessely, Attila Hörbiger and Jane Tilden.[1] It is based on a 1925 poem by Anton Wildgans about a woman in a small town who falls pregnant to a local forester serving in the Austrian Army during the First World War.

The film was the made by Wessely's independent production company, and was the sixth time she had appeared in a film directed by Usicky. It was partly shot on location in the vicinity of Vorau in Styria, using locals as extras.

Cast

  • Paula Wessely as Cordula
  • Attila Hörbiger as Kirbisch
  • Jane Tilden as Frau Kirbisch
  • Alma Seidler as Rosa Rachoining
  • Erik Frey as Forstgehilfe Fleps
  • Eduard Köck as Pfarrer
  • Leopold Rudolf as Vitus
  • Fritz Imhoff as Tobias Pschunder
  • Georg Filser as Andreas Pschunder, Sohn
  • Hermann Erhardt as Fürbass, Selcher
  • Karl Skraup as Crinis, Glaser
  • Franz Messner as Fliegerleutnant
  • Fritz Schmiedel as Schreiner
  • Karl Ehmann as Förster
  • Ralph Boddenhuser
  • Helene Croy
  • Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Katharina, Köchin
  • Hugo Gottschlich as Schriebelbauer
  • Karl Günther
  • Fred Hennings as Bezirkskommissär
  • Karl Hruschka as Schwinzerl, Totengräber
  • Willi Hufnagel
  • Manfred Inger
  • Julius Karsten
  • Isolde Kaspar-Czejke
  • Rudolf Klausner
  • Klein-Vondra
  • Edith Mill as Gusti, Kellnerin
  • Auguste Pünkösdy
  • Lydia Rauch as 2. Sommergast
  • Nina Sandt as 1. Sommergast
  • Alfred Schnayder
  • Walter Varndal
  • Oskar Wegrostek
  • Fritz Widhalm-Windegg

References

  1. ↑ Fritsche p.238

Bibliography

  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
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