Vienna in Film [German] was an exhibition in the Wien Museum.

The exhibition centered on [SURPRISE] Vienna in Film, showing sequences of films that were shot in Vienna, sometimes depicting Vienna, sometimes supposed to be other cities entirely. [Most mind-boggingly was probably Firefox, where the Viennese subway posed as the Moscow subway. Which didn’t work at all. Though Tim Curry‘s Richelieu in Paris Vienna was pretty awesome as well.]

Anyway, the exhibition was easily and slowly walked through in an hour or so and it was very entertaining. You could also use it a bit as a guideline to Austrian film, like a short introduction.

Most of the clips chosen were really great, some not so much. Some of the connections drawn between the clips were stretching it a little. But nevertheless, I quite liked their choices.

I probably would have been very well entertained by only seeing “Vienna posing as other cities” clips, but it was very nice to see Austrian movies and very interesting to see which movies made it into the exhibition.

The only thing they didn’t have and what I would have liked to see would have been a section on “other cities pretending to be Vienna” (worst offender: The Illusionist. I mean, they didn’t even try).

Summarising: an entertaining, light exhibition.