The following is critical overview of the life and work of Austrian film director Willi Forst, who has been generally counted among the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s. Forst was born in Vienna in 1903, and started working as an actor in theater and film after the end of the First World War, debuting in 1933 as a director with the musical film "Leise flehen meine Lieder". It was the beginning of a successful career as a film director, producer and actor, which developed in the years to follow between Austria and Germany. Among Forst’s most renowned films, there are "Maskerade", which was key to establishing the Wiener Film genre; an adaptation for the screen of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami, in 1939, with Forst in the title role; as well as the musical films "Operette", "Wiener Blut" and "Wiener Mädeln", produced during WWII. After the war, Forst celebrated his come-back with the scandalous melodrama "Die Sünderin", yet failed with the subsequent films to revamp his fame of the pre-war period. In 1957, Forst directed what would become his final film, "Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume", a bitter-sweet tribute to his town of birth. Forst died in Vienna on August 11, 1980.
Willi Forst: Biographie
francesco bono
2020
Abstract
The following is critical overview of the life and work of Austrian film director Willi Forst, who has been generally counted among the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s. Forst was born in Vienna in 1903, and started working as an actor in theater and film after the end of the First World War, debuting in 1933 as a director with the musical film "Leise flehen meine Lieder". It was the beginning of a successful career as a film director, producer and actor, which developed in the years to follow between Austria and Germany. Among Forst’s most renowned films, there are "Maskerade", which was key to establishing the Wiener Film genre; an adaptation for the screen of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami, in 1939, with Forst in the title role; as well as the musical films "Operette", "Wiener Blut" and "Wiener Mädeln", produced during WWII. After the war, Forst celebrated his come-back with the scandalous melodrama "Die Sünderin", yet failed with the subsequent films to revamp his fame of the pre-war period. In 1957, Forst directed what would become his final film, "Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume", a bitter-sweet tribute to his town of birth. Forst died in Vienna on August 11, 1980.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
