Cordula (film)

Cordula is a 1950 Austrian drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Paula Wessely, Attila Hörbiger and Jane Tilden. It is based on a 1925 poem by Anton Wildgans about a woman in a small town who falls pregnant to a local forester serving in the Austrian Army during the First World War.

Cordula
Paula Wessely and Attila Hörbiger
Directed by	Gustav Ucicky
Written by	Anton Wildgans (poem) Max Mell Gustav Ucicky
Produced by	Paula Wessely
Starring	Paula Wessely Attila Hörbiger Jane Tilden
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger
Edited by	Henny Brünsch
Music by	Josef Marx
Production company	Paula Wessely Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Sascha Film Union-Film (West Germany)
Release date	23 October 1950 (1950-10-23)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

The film was the made by Wessely's independent production company, and was the sixth time she had appeared in a film directed by Usicky. It was partly shot on location in the vicinity of Vorau in Styria, using locals as extras. Interiors were shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with sets designed by the art director Otto Niedermoser.

Cast

• Paula Wessely as Cordula
• Attila Hörbiger as Kirbisch
• Jane Tilden as Frau Kirbisch
• Alma Seidler as Rosa Rachoining
• Erik Frey as Fleps, forestry assistant
• Eduard Köck as pastor
• Leopold Rudolf as Vitus
• Fritz Imhoff as Tobias Pschunder
• Georg Filser as Andreas Pschunder, son
• Hermann Erhardt as Fürbass, Selcher
• Karl Skraup as Crinis, glazier
• Franz Messner as Fliegerleutnant
• Fritz Schmiedel as carpenter
• Karl Ehmann as forester
• Ralph Boddenhuser
• Helene Croy
• Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Katharina, cook
• Hugo Gottschlich as Schriebelbauer
• Karl Günther
• Fred Hennings as district commissioner
• Karl Hruschka as Schwinzerl, gravedigger
• Willi Hufnagel
• Manfred Inger
• Julius Karsten
• Isolde Kaspar-Czejke
• Rudolf Klausner
• Klein-Vondra
• Edith Mill as Gusti, waitress
• Auguste Pünkösdy
• Lydia Rauch as summer guest #2
• Nina Sandt as summer guest #1
• Alfred Schnayder
• Walter Varndal
• Oskar Wegrostek
• Fritz Widhalm-Windegg

External links

• Cordula at IMDb