{"id":818,"date":"2025-02-04T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsfilm.wunderkastl.at\/2025\/02\/04\/on-the-rails-of-the-double-headed-eagle-iii-the-way-to-the-west\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:27:49","slug":"on-the-rails-of-the-double-headed-eagle-iii-the-way-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfilm.wunderkastl.at\/en\/2025\/02\/04\/on-the-rails-of-the-double-headed-eagle-iii-the-way-to-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Rails of the Double Headed Eagle III – The Way to the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The second half of the 19th century was marked by epochal changes, also for the great multi-ethnic empire in the centre of Europe, the Austrian Empire. Above all, the development of a gigantic railway network linking the most remote areas of the Austrian crown lands, between the steppes of Galicia and the coasts of the Adriatic, was to change the way people live together forever. <\/h4>\n

Suddenly, goods, people and ideas circulated at breathtaking speed in an empire that was home to more than a dozen peoples. And for the first time it was possible to drive from Vienna to Lemberg in the east or south to the old Austrian port city of Trieste in just a few hours. Distances which had taken days and weeks before the railway was built. <\/h4>\n

In the third part of the television documentary series \u201cOn the Rails of the Double Headed Eagle\u201d, the two directors Bj\u00f6rn K\u00f6lz and Gernot Stadler take the audience on a journey to the southwestern Crown Lands of the Habsburg Empire. The Kaiserin-Elisabeth-line, today\u2019s West line, goes to Bad Ischl and the M\u00fchlviertel in Upper Austria, from Innsbruck the journey continues on the Arlberg line to Vorarlberg and the Brenner line to South Tyrol. It highlights the engineering masterpieces that had to be accomplished in order to cross the Alps on the way to the west and south. The filmmakers also spend some time in the various regions along the route. In Ampflwang in Upper Austria\u2019s Hausruckviertel, the locomotive park of the Austrian Society for Railway History invites you to visit, while in Carinthia there is an excursion with a historic steam locomotive of the Association Nostalgiebahnen. A visit to a cheesemaker and farmer in the Bregenzerwald or to a winegrower in South Tyrol are further stops on this cinematic railway journey. <\/h4>\n

Auch im dritten Teil von \u201eAuf den Schienen des Doppeladlers\u201c wird deutlich: es waren die Eisenbahnen, die das weite Reich mit Leben erf\u00fcllten, die Menschen und Waren zirkulieren lie\u00dfen und die Eroberung von Landschaften im touristischen Sinne erm\u00f6glichten. In einem Gro\u00dfraum, der heute von mehr als einem Dutzend souver\u00e4ner Staaten belegt wird, konnte sich der Reisende vor hundert Jahren ohne jegliche Einschr\u00e4nkung frei bewegen. Durch ihre grenz\u00fcberschreitende und v\u00f6lkerverbindende Funktion wurde die Eisenbahn auch zu einem Symbol f\u00fcr Freiheit und Einheit innerhalb der \u00d6sterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie. <\/h4>\n

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Format<\/h2>\n

Documentation, 52 min, 2015<\/h4>\n

Production<\/h2>\n

GS-Film, ORF\/3sat<\/h4>\n

Idea & Concept<\/h2>\n

Bj\u00f6rn K\u00f6lz<\/h4>\n

Written and directed by<\/h2>\n

Bj\u00f6rn K\u00f6lz, Gernot Stadler<\/h4>\n

Camera<\/h2>\n

Gernot Stadler, Dieter Frank, Marco J. Rusch, Jonathan Rinn<\/h4>\n

Music<\/h2>\n

Manfred Plessl<\/h4>\n

Camera assistance & sound<\/h2>\n

Bj\u00f6rn K\u00f6lz<\/h4>\n

Distribution<\/h2>\n

ORF Enterprise<\/h4>\n

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