''Maresi'' is a 1948 Austrian

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directed by

Hans Thimig Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner (23 July 1900 in Vienna – 17 February 1991, also in Vienna) was an Austrian actor, film director, and stage director. Life The youngest son of the Burgtheater actor Hugo Thimig and Franziska "Fanny" H ...

and starring

Attila Hörbiger Attila Hörbiger (21 April 1896 – 27 April 1987) was an Austrian stage and movie actor. Life Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger and the younge ...

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and

Siegfried Breuer Siegfried Breuer (24 June 1906 – 1 February 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Vienna, Siegried was the son of Hans Breuer (1868 or 1870–1929), who was an opera sin ...

. It was one of the box offices successes of 1948.Von Dassanowsky p.129 The film was based on the 1935 story of the same title by the Austrian writer

Alexander Lernet-Holenia Alexander Lernet-Holenia (21 October 1897 – 3 July 1976) was an Austrian poet, novelist, playwright and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poetry, psychological novels descri ...

(1897 - 1976). The film's sets were designed by the

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Cast

as Franz von Hübner *

as Blanka von Steinville *

as Tabakovitsch * Helene Croy as Frau von Hübner *

Franz Pfaudler Franz Pfaudler (1893–1956) was an Austrian stage and film actor.Giesen p.200 Selected filmography * '' My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * '' Renate in the Quartet'' (1939) * '' Der Postmeister'' (1940) * '' Heimkehr'' (1941) * '' Anuschka' ...

as Graf Steinville *

Maria Olszewska Maria Olszewska (Olczewska, also Marie Berchtenbreitner; 12 August 1892 – 17 May 1969) was a German operatic dramatic contralto. Biography Olszewska was born in , Germany. She studied singing in Munich with Karl Erler before beginning her ca ...

as Gräfin Steinville *

Alfred Neugebauer Alfred Neugebauer (24 December 1888 – 14 September 1957) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * '' Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * ...

as Erzherzog

Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I. Fran ...

Anton Pointner Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and he performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as w ...

as Der Oberst *

Georg Tressler Georg Tressler (January 25, 1917 – January 6, 2007) was a Vienna-born Germany, German film actor and film director. Also known as George Tressler, Hans Tressler, Hans Dressler, Hans Georg Keil and Hans Sternbeck (per IMDb). The son of acto ...

as Der Richter * Josef Albin as Kriminalinspektor Weniger * Camillo Kossuth as Der Diener Ferdinand * Max Schipper as Der Reitbursche Johann *

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as Madame Elektra * Hugo Lindinger as Ein dicker Fleischhauer *

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as Matthias Loy - ein Kutscher *

Franz Muxeneder Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 – 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987. Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series '' The White ...

as Hausdiener bei Franz von Hübner

References

Bibliography

* Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity''. Berghahn Books, 2013. * Von Dassanowsky, Robert. ''Austrian Cinema: A History''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

* 1948 films Austrian historical drama films 1940s historical drama films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Hans Thimig Austrian black-and-white films Films about horses Films set in the 1910s Films set in the 1920s Cultural depictions of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Sascha-Film films Films based on works by Alexander Lernet-Holenia {{Austria-film-stub