Dallas Video Festival 2008 - Miss Universe 1929

Run time: 70 min. | USA | Language: English

Lisl Goldarbeiter and Marci Tenczer -born in 1908- were cousins and knew each other since early childhood. The Goldarbeiters lived in Vienna and belonged to the Austrian wing of a large Austro-Hungarian Jewish family. The Tenczer's lived in Szeged, and formed the Hungarian wing. The family ties between Vienna and Szeged never ceased. Marci moved to Vienna in 1926, to study. The first anti-Semitic law in Europe, the Hungarian Numerous Clauses of 1922, made it impossible for Jews to enter a University in Hungary. Marci lived in the house of the Goldarbeiters and studied at the Technical University from 1926-1936. Marci secretly loved his cousin Lisl. He started to make films of her, her family and Vienna shortly after his arrival. He was very poor but succeeded in saving cash for his film hobby by walking the city, instead of taking the tram. In 1929, without telling anybody, Marci caused Lisl's entry into the world of beauty; and she became world famous. Lisl married in 1930. Marci did not, he waited for her. Lisl's husband disappeared during World War II. She survived the war, as did Marci. In 1949 Marci got what he had been waiting for so long. He married Lisl and they lived happily together for many years in Szeged. Lisl died in 1996. Marci passed away in 2003, shortly after he had told us every detail about his live and the live of his own Miss Universe Lisl Goldarbeiter.

Information from the festival's website