That Vienna could become the cultural center of Central Europe around 1900 required rapid growth into a major city. Migration and two waves of urban expansion increased the city’s size many times over at the end of the 19th century, turning Vienna into a city of over a million inhabitants.
But the residents of this emerging metropolis also needed to be supplied. Vienna’s markets served as hubs for everyday goods and meeting places for the city’s inhabitants. Large municipal warehouses and market halls sourced products from near and far, savvy entrepreneurs seized the opportunity, and new cultural influences shaped Viennese cuisine to this day. The ambition of urban planners to meet the challenges of their time, stay at the cutting edge, and improve the city for its residents has created the Vienna we know today.
Using archival photographs, we join our interview partners in tracing the old imperial city—the everyday life of its people and society—and a metropolis whose infrastructure made life for millions in one place possible. It is a Vienna that no longer exists for over a century, and yet still feels familiar to us all.
A film by Norman Vaughan.
Credits
Documentary
25 Min. / 45 Min.
Directed by: Norman Vaughan
Written by: Norman Vaughan
Producers: Jakob Pochlatko, Dieter Pochlatko, Norman Vaughan
Line Producer: Heinrich Mayer-Moroni
Productions Manager: Franziska Kiefmann
Director of Photography: Bernhard Schmidt, Norman Vaughan, Rupert Kasper
Sound: Rainer Antesberger, Klaus Tauber
Music: Martin Payr
Edited by: Michaela Müllner
Narrator: Angelika Lang
among others
produced in: 2022
first broadcasted: 13. Dezember 2022
a co-production by EPO-Film, NVFP, ORFIII, ORF
with the financial support of FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA, Filmfonds Wien, VAM
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