Who directed Der Millionenonkel?

The movie Der Millionenonkel was directed by Hubert Marischka.

When was Der Millionenonkel released?

Der Millionenonkel was released in the year 1913.

What is the IMDb rating of Der Millionenonkel?

Der Millionenonkel has an IMDb rating of 4.2 out of 10.

Which country is Der Millionenonkel from?

Der Millionenonkel is a movie from Austria.

Who wrote the screenplay for Der Millionenonkel?

The screenplay for Der Millionenonkel was written by Alexander Girardi, Ernst Marischka, Hubert Marischka.

What are movies similar to Der Millionenonkel?

If you enjoy Der Millionenonkel, you might also like The Soul's Cycle (1916), The Marathon (1919), Roads of Destiny (1921), Tobin's Palm (1918).

Is Der Millionenonkel considered a cult classic?

Yes, Der Millionenonkel (1913) is featured in the Dbcult archive as a curated cult cinema title.

Der Millionenonkel

Name: Der Millionenonkel
Director: Hubert Marischka
Released: 1913
Rating: 4.2
Cast: Bernhard Baumeister, Hubert Marischka, Hilde Radney, Marietta Weber

1913·Hubert Marischka·IMDb: 4.2/10

Summary

Vienna’s asphalt shimmers like black marble beneath the gas-lamps of 1913 as Der Millionenonkel unspools its topsy-turvy parable of liquid luck: a benevolent tycoon (Bernhard Baumeister, equal parts Rothschild and Puck) decides that anonymity is the ultimate extravagance, so he slips among the city’s night-hawks, chimney-sweeps and starveling poets, scattering bank-notes as if they were rose-petals. His wallet becomes a conjurer’s hat: a tram conductor suddenly owns a lakeside villa, a seamstress purchases the moonlit Danube, two hapless suitors rehearse proposals on a velvet stage financed by phantom millions. But Viennese society—ever a porcelain masquerade—soon smells the metallic tang of unexplained fortune; creditors sharpen quills, dowagers plot marriages, detectives lurk inside cake-shops. When the millionaire’s final jest—an unsigned cheque for an orphanage—bounces because he has forgotten his own name, the film pirouettes into giddy nightmare: creditors transform into harlequins, ballrooms tilt like fun-house carousels, the Ringstrasse becomes a Möbius strip of debt. In the breathless coda he is chased through Prater funfair by every beneficiary, their palms open like starving lilies, until he dives into the ferris-wheel’s central void and re-emerges stripped of both money and mask, reborn as the happiest pauper in the empire while the wheel spins on, a coin forever falling, a promise that fortune is only the glittering shadow of fraternity.

Synopsis

The first Austrian feature film.

Director

Hubert Marischka

Cast

Bernhard Baumeister, Hubert Marischka, Hilde Radney, Marietta Weber

Writers