Tales from the Vienna Woods
Film poster
Directed by	Maximilian Schell
Written by	Christopher Hampton Ödön von Horvath (play) Maximilian Schell
Starring	Birgit Doll
Cinematography	Klaus König
Production companies	Arabella Film Bayerischer Rundfunk Franz Seitz Filmproduktion MFG-Film Solaris Film
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	October 1979 (1979-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Austria West Germany
Language	German

Tales from the Vienna Woods (German: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a 1979 Austrian-German drama film directed by Maximilian Schell.^[1] The film was adapted from the play by Ödön von Horvath. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2] It was the final film for veteran actress Lil Dagover who started her film career in the 1910s.

Plot

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.

Cast

• Birgit Doll as Marianne
• Hanno Pöschl as Alfred
• Helmut Qualtinger as Zauberkönig
• Jane Tilden as Valerie
• Adrienne Gessner as Alfred's Grandmother
• Götz Kauffmann as Oskar
• André Heller as Hierlinger
• Norbert Schiller as Rittmeister
• Eric Pohlmann as Mister
• Robert Meyer as Erich
• Lil Dagover (in her last film role) as Helene
• Martha Wallner as Alfred's Mother