Underplayed Gems

Episode (1935)

Episode poster
Directed by
Walter Reisch
Genre
drama film
Country
Austria
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A romantic comedy from 1930s Vienna that mixes light humor with serious social commentary. It follows characters navigating love and class tensions in a changing society.

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What happens

Episode is an Austrian film from 1935. It belongs to the popular Austrian light romantic comedy genre known as the Wiener Film, but also contains, for a film of this genre, unusually serious social comment. It was written and produced by Walter Reisch. The film has a particular importance in German-language film history as the only Austrian film with a Jewish producer that was permitted to be imported and shown in Nazi Germany after 1933 and the ban on Jews working in the film industry. The German premiere took place on 23 August 1935 in the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. The Austrian premiere was in a Vienna cinema on 13 September of the same year. It was first broadcast on television by the ARD on 2 December 1958. On 1 April 1994 it was released on VHS video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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