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Der Hofrat Geiger, 1947
with Hans Moser and Paul Hörbiger
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To summarize, till this week there was only one movie with Hans Moser that I had seen ever, some fifty or sixty years ago: a comedy made in 1940. I looked for that film on the web, I didn't find it anymore. I found instead some other movies, that I was perfectly unaware about. I watched them all, these last days: movies made in Austria in the fifties (or by the end of the forties, like this one, Der Hofrat Geiger). Ozu comes to mind: the same atmosphere, a country that lost the war and tries to forget a recent past that is too overwhelming, where people of a certain age try to fool themselves that the good old ways will go on, while they are too lucid to not observe that the good old ways are more and more illusory, as the signs of the present are just too aggressive, the rock'n roll and all that stuff. And, like in the movies of Ozu from the same period, the present is accepted with some elegant resignation, with some mild irony.

Well, Ozu was a genius, the master of the masters; but the atmosphere is the same; the same charming, warm universe. And like in the case of Ozu's films, here also the same actors play in each movie the same characters, again, and again.

I had found a copy of the whole movie on youTube, unfortunately it was meanwhile deleted. Till I find another copy, here are just a few glimpses:

(video by HoanzlFilm)

Hofrat Geiger lebt seit seiner Zwangspensionierung 1938 allein und zurückgezogen. Sein Freund Lechner macht sich Sorgen und bringt ihm als "Arbeitstherapie" längst abgelegte Fälle zur Erledigung mit. Geiger macht sich an die Arbeit und hält plötzlich zu seinem großen Erstaunen den Antrag seiner Jugendliebe in den Händen.
[Counselor Geiger has been living since his forced retirement in 1938 alone and withdrawn. His friend Lechner worries and brings him long ago dropped cases to completion as work therapy. Geiger makes the work and suddenly keeps in his hands the application of his sweetheart from the youth. Add to this Mariandl, the daughter of their long time ago love. The counselor has all his life unaware that he had a daughter.]

Waltraut Haas singt Mariandl
(video by thmmedia01)

Waltraut Haas played Mariandl, the illegitimate daughter of a woman who runs an inn in the picturesque Wachau valley. In 1961, she would play Mariandl's single mother in a remake entitled Mariandl.