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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's comedy "Measure for Measure" side by side with scene summaries and explanatory notes, and provides background on Shakespeare, the text, and the play's context, and discussion questions, activities, and essay and project suggestions.
2) Leopoldstadt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taking its title from the old Jewish quarter of Vienna, Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Gretl, a Catholic. As the play begins, Gretl is hosting her extended family at their fashionable Vienna apartment at Christmastime, 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust,...
3) Museum hours
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18 p.] : col. ill. ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is a bit a mystery to him as it is to Franz.
5) Vienna blood
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed screenwriter Steve Thompson (Sherlock), this thrilling crime drama is set in 1900s Vienna -- a hot bed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. When Max Liebermann, a disciple of Sigmund Freud, meets Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help Oskar investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders. Max's...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w, ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm., folded)
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
x, 147 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tom Stoppard presents two works which explore in contrasting ways the workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, setting the upper-class stylized codes of behavior against their effects in practice on human relationships. Dalliance was first performed at the National Theatre in 1986. Undiscovered Country was first produced at the National Theatre in 1979"--Publisher.
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He recluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
12) Amadeus
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
1781, Vienna. Court composer Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he is unable to understand why God favored Mozart who is such a vulgar, bawdy and impish creature, to be his instrument. Salieri goes mad with envy and has made himself an enemy of God. He is set to take revenge and plots to destroy Mozart by any means necessary....
13) The third man
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his friend's Czech girlfriend. Includes commentary, interviews,...
14) Before sunrise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995] 2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.
Series
Criterion collection volume 857
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
Blu-ray 3-disc director-approved edition.
Physical Desc
3 blu-ray discs (4 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 guide (32 pages ; color illustrations, 17 cm).
Language
English
16) Bitter sweet
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her wedding to a priggish Londoner, a Victorian girl and her dashing music teacher elope to Vienna, where he hopes to sell his music.
18) The third man
Publisher
Artiflix
Pub. Date
[201-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (093 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
19) Corsage
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
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