''Wild Water'' (German: ''Wilde Wasser'') is a 1962 Austrian-West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Rudolf Schündler Rudolf Ernst Paul Schündler (17 April 1906, in Leipzig – 12 December 1988, in Munich) was a German actor and director. He played "Karl" in ''The Exorcist'' (1973). After finishing the film ''The Nasty Girl'', Schündler died of a heart attac ...

and starring

Marianne Hold Marianne Hold (15 May 1933 – 11 September 1994) was a German movie actress who became popular in the 1950s and 1960s for her numerous roles in the '' Heimatfilm'' genre—romantic comedy films set in rural, especially Alpine, areas. She se ...

Hans von Borsody Hans von Borsody (; 20 September 1929 – 4 November 2013) was a German film actor. Biography He was born in Vienna into an artistic family of Hungarian descent. His father Eduard was a film director, his uncle Julius a set designer.(in German ...

and

Corny Collins Corny Collins (born 18 December 1933) is a German retired actress. She was married to the actor Christian Wolff. Her life After leaving school, Corny Collins completed an apprenticeship as a medical assistant. Günter Pfitzmann discovered her ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.170 It was part of the post-war boom in

heimatfilm ' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in West Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. '' Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or " ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Hans Zehetner.

Plot

Cast

as Magdalena Ullmann *

as Thomas Mautner *

as Andrea Sternberg *

Ruth Stephan Ruth Stephan (27 October 1925 – 8 August 1975) was a German film and stage actress. She appeared with Heinz Erhardt in the 'Willi' series of films. Biography Ruth Stephan was born to retail merchant Kurt Stephan and his wife, Kriemhilde. Af ...

as Johanna * Ingeborg Gruber as Monika Böhmel *

Friedrich Schoenfelder Friedrich Schoenfelder (17 October 1916 – 14 August 2011) was a German actor. Schoenfelder was born in Sorau/Lower Lusatia and died in Berlin. He was 94. He was the German dubbing voice of David Niven and Vincent Price. In the German versio ...

as Baron Ferdinand von Lindner *

Sieghardt Rupp Sieghardt Rupp (14 June 1931 – 20 July 2015)Beppo Brem Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characte ...

as Fabian *

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 Siegfried 'Sigi' Reiber * Rolf Olsen as Sternberg *

Viktor Staal Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Everything for the Company'' (1935) * '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935) * '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935) * '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...

as Förster Böhmel *

Heinrich Gretler Heinrich Gretler (1897–1977) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater in Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton ...

as Mautner sr. * Silvia Simon * Susanne von Ratony * Harry Engel *

Sergio Casmai Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * Sergio, the mascot for the Old Orchard Beach Surge baseball team * ''Sergio'', a 2009 documentary film about ...

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

*
''Wild Water'' at AllMovie
1962 films 1962 drama films Austrian drama films German drama films West German films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Rudolf Schündler Films set in the Alps 1960s German films German-language drama films {{Austria-film-stub