Overview
Adventure in Vienna (German: Abenteuer in Wien) is a 1952 Austrian crime thriller film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers and Adrienne Gessner. It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia. A separate English-language version Stolen Identity was also produced.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Fritz Moegle. It was shot at the Schönbrunn Studios in Vienna and on location across the city. The costumes were designed by Nadja Tiller, better known as an actress.
Synopsis
The story takes place over New Year's Eve in Vienna where a taxi driver without papers is tempted to assume the identity of another man.
Cast
Gustav Fröhlich as Toni Sponer
Cornell Borchers as Karin Manelli
Francis Lederer as Claude Manelli
Inge Konradi as Marie
Hermann Erhardt as Ferdl Heintl
Adrienne Gessner as Frau Anna Fraser
Egon von Jordan as Krüger
Manfred Inger as Polizeiinspektor
Fritz Eckhardt as Portier im Goldenen Löwen
Alexander Kerst as 2.Polizist auf der Wache
Trude Marlen as Ehefrau auf dem Kommissariat
Karl Schwetter as Ehemann auf dem Kommissariat
Michael Kehlmann as Passfälscher
Franz Marischka as Passkontrolleur am Flughafen
Wolfgang Glück as Porschefahrer
Gerda Neubauer as Frau im Porsche
Karl Farkas as Ober in der Bar
Guido Wieland as 'Geldeintreiber' vom Goldenen Löwen
Gisela Wilke as Alte Frau im Kaiserpanorama
Fred Solm as 1.Polizist auf der Wache
Louis Ousted as John Milton
Paul Pranger as Portier im Goldenen Löwen
Reinhold Siegert as Mann bei der Telefonzelle
Helmut Janatsch as Polizist bei der Hausdurchsuchung
Fritz Krenn as Mann an der Lufthafenauskunft
Maria Gerngroß as Stewardess
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Alte Frau im Kaiserpanorama
Franz Böheim as Betrunkener mit Luftballon
Rosa Albach-Retty
Ulrich Bettac
Heinz Conrads
Hugo Gottschlich
Hans Hagen as Dirigent
Dorothea Neff
Milan von Kamare
Ernst Waldbrunn
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