Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards (1987)

Based on a novel by Friedrich Torberg
Directed by Wolfgang Glück
Year of production: 1986
Starring: Tobias Engel, Sunnyi Melles

Vienna, 1937. The young Carola Bright, promising actress at the Theater an der Josefstadt, and the Jewish writer Martin Hoffmann ignore the signs of change in their city. It is only when Hitler marches into Austria on 11 March 1938, that the two lovers decide to flee to Prague. The now pregnant Carola gets permission to leave, Martin is denied it. While Carola arrives safely in Prague, Martin negotiates with a smuggler who promises to take him across the Czech border. Full of optimism Martin walks through Vienna and straight into the arms of two SS soldiers.

Based on true events following the end of WWII in Berlin.

In the course of the Allied denacification initiative a US Army major is given the task of investigating whether the world-renowned conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler had collaborated with the Nazis. Trusting in the purifying power of music, the sensitive artist had decided to stay in his hometown despite the risk of having to come to terms with the totalitarian Nazi regime – a tricky manoeuvre in the thicket of moral ambivalence. To find his own truth the major goes to extremes, his black-and-white philosophy, however, proves inadequate for making the right accusations.

Land: A | Jahr: 1979
Genre: Genres, Drama
Laufzeit: 110 min.

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Awarded the Adolf Grimme Preis 1998, highly recommended and supported through the MEDIA programme

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