Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934 film)

Tales from the Vienna Woods () 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.

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". (reprinted in:

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