(9) THE HIGH SOCIETY OF VIENNA
Countess Eva von Walterdorf is „moved to tears“, whenever she‘s hearing the Vienna Waltz. The Vienna Opera Ball is the event of the year, and everybody is going – when he or she is invited. Even though in those days sometimes builder-millionaire Mörtel Lugner is bringing porn star Dolly Buster as his lady of the night.
Nevertheless Vienna‘s high society is can be good fun, at least during the ball season in late winter. Austrias aristocracie is no longer allowed to officially hold their titles. So the carnival season is about the only time of the year, when everybody can revive the nostalgia of the old times with the emperor and his holding court.
Count Abensperg-Traun‘s ancisters have been fighting the Turks, beleaguering the walls of Vienna, the Duke of Schwarzenberg is not only owning a huge private palais and park in the very centre of Vienna and is also serving as a minister for the Czech Republic, and Hubertus of Hohenlohe is commuting between Los Angeles and Vienna to record his dancefloor music.
„Vienna is different“ was coined as a slogan for the city by its late former major Helmut Zilk. „Vienna has come to a complete halt“, says former Formula-One-Worldchampion Niki Lauda. Both seems to be true.
*Original German title: Mondän!
Nevertheless Vienna‘s high society is can be good fun, at least during the ball season in late winter. Austrias aristocracie is no longer allowed to officially hold their titles. So the carnival season is about the only time of the year, when everybody can revive the nostalgia of the old times with the emperor and his holding court.
Count Abensperg-Traun‘s ancisters have been fighting the Turks, beleaguering the walls of Vienna, the Duke of Schwarzenberg is not only owning a huge private palais and park in the very centre of Vienna and is also serving as a minister for the Czech Republic, and Hubertus of Hohenlohe is commuting between Los Angeles and Vienna to record his dancefloor music.
„Vienna is different“ was coined as a slogan for the city by its late former major Helmut Zilk. „Vienna has come to a complete halt“, says former Formula-One-Worldchampion Niki Lauda. Both seems to be true.
*Original German title: Mondän!
The Mondän! (Glamoroso!) series was nominated for the national Adolf-Grimme-Prize in 2000
First aired 24th October 1999, 22.30 pm on ZDF
1,48 million viewers, 11,5 % market share
The Mondän! series had unbelievable 67 reruns between 1998 and 2011.
Written, directed and produced by
Petra Höfer & Freddie Röckenhaus
DOP:
Thomas Schäfer
Additional Camera:
Christian Roth
Editing:
Jörg Wegner
Producers:
Francesca D‘Amicis
Carola Sayer
Ralf Hoppe
Christian Ankowitsch
Christian May
Cast:
Fürst Karl von Schwarzenberg
Prinz Hubertus von Hohenlohe
Niki Lauda
Agnes Gräfin von Arko-Husslein
Bianca Jagger
Helmuth Lohner
Werner Schneyder
Dagmar Koller
Helmut Zilk
Editor at ZDF:
Peter Arens
A colourFIELD production, commissioned by ZDF