A musical about love that spans the period before and after the Great War in the Austro Hungarian empire..
If you love dusty, crackly operettas where people sing about pastries and heartbreak, Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna is a weirdly charming watch. But if old-school melodrama makes you cringe, you should definetly skip this one. 🥐 The plot is pretty simple. It starts in the sunny, pre-war Austro-Hungarian empire where ...
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"If you love dusty, crackly operettas where people sing about pastries and heartbreak, Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna is a weirdly charming watch. But if old-school melodrama makes you cringe, you should definetly skip this one. 🥐 The plot is pretty simple. It starts in the sunny, pre-war Austro-Hungarian empire where everyone is happy and dancing. Then the Great War happens, and everything gets sad and gray. It is basically a story of two halves, separated by a giant historical mess. The mai..."
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