Weininger's Last Night (1990)

5.9/10 • 105 min • Drama

Overview

This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The young genius fights a desperate battle against time, his fellow men - and against himself.

Cast

Paulus Manker

Otto Weininger

Hilde Sochor

Adelaide, his mother / Adele, concierge

Andrea Eckert

Clara

Sieghardt Rupp

Leopold, his father / Sigmund Freud

Peter Faerber

Berger

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