Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (, 1931) is a play by Austro-Hungarian writer Ödön von Horváth. It was premièred in Berlin in 1931 and has been filmed several times. Before the première, the German writer and playwright, Carl Zuckmayer nominated the play for the Kleist Prize, which it won, the most significant literary award of the Weimar Republic. The play's title is a reference to the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss II. Horváth's play premièred at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Written in the late 1920s during the period of catastrophic
Tales from the Gimli Hospital story as the film ends. "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" was famously rejected by the Toronto International Film Festival when a divided jury mistook its anachronistic style as unintentionally ill-crafted. Nevertheless, it became a cult success and established Maddin's reputation in independent film circles. The film garnered the attention of Ben Barenholtz, who had successfully distributed other cult films such as the John Waters film "Pink Flamingos" and David Lynch's debut feature "Eraserhead". "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" consequently screened for a full year as a midnight movie at the Quad Theatre in New York's Greenwich Village. Maddin received a