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Vor der Morgenröte (2016)
Boring movie - a missed opportunity.
Very boring! I find Hader as Zweig horrible with his Upper Austrian accent, Hader only plays himself. It is not at all clear, in this film, why Zweig finally committed suicide. And the Brazilians are portrayed as bumpkins. A lousy film, somehow a way a German teacher of German may imagine Stefan Zweig's life, that's how the film is constructed.
For me, the best film on the emigrant fate of Viennese Jews is still Axel Corti's ingenious three-part film "Wohin und zurück" (Where to and back) starring Gabriel Barylli. The difference is also that "Wohin und Zurück" was made by the people concerned themselves, the screenplay was written by Georg Stefan Troller, himself a Viennese Jew who had to flee in 1938, and Axel Corti was the child of refugees who fled Nazi Germany/Austria, which you can sense in the trilogy. In the "Morgenröte" film everything is so theoretical, boring, detached and neither real nor serious. The director was a German actress/director who is not Jewish herself. I also found it funny that at Zweig's deathbed the Russian migrant friend says a Jewish prayer, a Kaddish? - Zweig was an assimilated Jew and not at all Orthodox, not religious at all, he didnt see himself as a Jew, Hitler made him into a Jew and an emigrant. In summary a real missed opportunity to make a great movie about an author that is almost forgotten today outside of Austria and Germany, but was famous all over the world in the 1930s.
Love Machine (2019)
Great Austrian comedy
Stipsits is great as call boy "Georgy" and Claudia Kottal excels as "Jadwiga" super sexy, tough Polish-Austrian on-off girlfriend of Georgy. Kottal is the highlight of this black, irreverent comedy, Id like to see her more often in movies.
I sette magnifici gladiatori (1983)
Awesome female wrestling scene
The highlight of this otherwise boring Italian B-movie, besides the gorgeous Sybil Danning is the 3 minute female wrestling scene in this movie. Two female slaves, tied together at the wrist are wrestling for the entertainment of the Roman emperor. This scene has made the movie much sought after by aficionados of frmale wrestling everywhere. Its is probably one of the best scenes of any movie. I remember seeing the film in the cinema as an 16 year old and the scene did really kindle my interest in female wrestling. For acting out the scene the director enlisted beautiful, fit actress and stunt woman Mindi Miller and a fellow blonde wrestler from the "Golden Girls" female wrestling producer/promotion from California. This is what gives this scene the beauty and the wrestling skill beyond what could be expected in this B-movie. Sadly neither Mindi Miller nor her opponent are credited in the film credits. Recently imdb has added Mindi in their database entry on the film, thanks to my insistence.
Ginger (1971)
Excellent fem fighting action!
How come in the 1970s movies they did the best and most erotic femfight scenes? Just think about "The Amazons" (1973) In the beginning of this movie Ginger is challenged on the beach by a group of bad girls. She ends up fighting the girls ringleader in a a short violent tussle in the sand. Tough blonde Ginger defeats her brunette adversary and strips her of her bikini, while continueing to beat her. Ginger uses the bikini of the losing girl to tie up her arms and legs. As the girls tries to get up Ginger sends her crashing back into the sand and into humiliating defeat by a swift kick of her sexy foot into her oppnents belly.