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1950 film

Cordula
Paula Wessely and Attila Hörbiger
Directed by	Gustav Ucicky
Written by	Anton Wildgans (poem) Max Mell Gustav Ucicky
Produced by	Paula Wessely
Starring	Paula Wessely Attila Hörbiger Jane Tilden
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger
Edited by	Henny Brünsch
Music by	Josef Marx
Production company	Paula Wessely Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Sascha Film Union-Film (West Germany)
Release date	23 October 1950 (1950-10-23)
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. 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. Interiors were shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with sets designed by the art director Otto Niedermoser.

Cast

Paula Wessely as Cordula
Attila Hörbiger as Kirbisch
Jane Tilden as Frau Kirbisch
Alma Seidler as Rosa Rachoining
Erik Frey as Fleps, forestry assistant
Eduard Köck as pastor
Leopold Rudolf as Vitus
Fritz Imhoff as Tobias Pschunder
Georg Filser as Andreas Pschunder, son
Hermann Erhardt as Fürbass, Selcher
Karl Skraup as Crinis, glazier
Franz Messner as Fliegerleutnant
Fritz Schmiedel as carpenter
Karl Ehmann as forester
Ralph Boddenhuser
Helene Croy
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Katharina, cook
Hugo Gottschlich as Schriebelbauer
Karl Günther
Fred Hennings as district commissioner
Karl Hruschka as Schwinzerl, gravedigger
Willi Hufnagel
Manfred Inger
Julius Karsten
Isolde Kaspar-Czejke
Rudolf Klausner
Klein-Vondra
Edith Mill as Gusti, waitress
Auguste Pünkösdy
Lydia Rauch as summer guest #2
Nina Sandt as summer guest #1
Alfred Schnayder
Walter Varndal
Oskar Wegrostek
Fritz Widhalm-Windegg

References

Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013. p. 238.

External links

Cordula at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
Die Pratermizzi (1926) Café Elektric (1927) A Better Master (1928) Restless Hearts (1928) The Convict from Istanbul (1929) The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930) Hocuspocus (1930) The Temporary Widow (1930) Yorck (1931) In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931) Man Without a Name (1932) Morgenrot (1933) Refugees (1933) At the End of the World (1934) The Young Baron Neuhaus (1934) Night in May (1934) Joan of Arc (1935) Under Blazing Heavens (1936) Savoy Hotel 217 (1936) The Broken Jug (1937) Frau Sixta (1938) Uproar in Damascus (1939) A Mother's Love (1939) Der Postmeister (1940) Heimkehr (1941) Late Love (1943) The Heart Must Be Silent (1944) After the Storm (1948) Cordula (1950) The Chaplain of San Lorenzo (1953) The Witch (1954) A Life for Do (1954) The Hunter of Fall (1956) The Saint and Her Fool (1957) The Priest and the Girl (1958) The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958) The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960)

Films directed by Gustav Ucicky

Die Pratermizzi (1926)
Café Elektric (1927)
A Better Master (1928)
Restless Hearts (1928)
The Convict from Istanbul (1929)
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930)
Hocuspocus (1930)
The Temporary Widow (1930)
Yorck (1931)
In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)
Man Without a Name (1932)
Morgenrot (1933)
Refugees (1933)
At the End of the World (1934)
The Young Baron Neuhaus (1934)
Night in May (1934)
Joan of Arc (1935)
Under Blazing Heavens (1936)
Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
The Broken Jug (1937)
Frau Sixta (1938)
Uproar in Damascus (1939)
A Mother's Love (1939)
Der Postmeister (1940)
Heimkehr (1941)
Late Love (1943)
The Heart Must Be Silent (1944)
After the Storm (1948)
Cordula (1950)
The Chaplain of San Lorenzo (1953)
The Witch (1954)
A Life for Do (1954)
The Hunter of Fall (1956)
The Saint and Her Fool (1957)
The Priest and the Girl (1958)
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958)
The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960)

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