Word: oskar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stands, however, he has a long string of improbabilities laced with bad dialogue and characterization, particularly in supporting roles. What he has is a typically exciting spy-war-fare film with a couple of good performances. Oskar Werner, a blond and proud Nordic youth, comes off very well indeed because he has little to say, and no script-writer to louse up his sincerity. Everyone else--particularly Gary Merrill and Richard Basehart--acts in the best tradition of a class B film unit on location in Europe for the first time. This means lots of gutsy tough guys swimming...
...border obstacles." While Austrians were speculating whether Rakosi or the Russians were responsible, squads of Hungarian soldiers began dismantling the barbed wire. A new thought occurred to the Austrians: if the Iron Curtain is really raised, how will Rakosi keep his Hungarians at home? Said Austrian Interior Minister Oskar Helmer: "Soon we will have all of Hungary in Austria...
...canteen the nurses and the noncoms drink their beer and sing their sentimental songs. The generals have a little champagne. A young captain (Oskar Werner) rages to a brother officer: "Why does he surround himself with slimy yes men?" Eva's brother-in-law pleads with her for a pass to leave the bunker: "I can be loyal in Bavaria...
Next day the Arbeiterzeitung review pleaded "Do Kiss Me, Kate." The Wochenpresse added "Kiss Me Very Long, Kate." Vienna's most eminent literary critic, Oskar Maurus Fontana, proclaimed on the radio: "Not since Offenbach . . . has Vienna seen such an inspired foreign product." Cole Porter was hailed as the "Lehar of America," and at week's end Kate was playing to packed houses at prices 25% above the Volksoper norm...
...city of Salzburg was aglow last summer with a magnificent production of Mozart's Magic Flute. To help usher in the Mozart year with style, the Austrians commissioned Oskar Kokoschka to design sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more...