Heldenplatz (1989)

10.0/10 • 195 min • Drama

Overview

Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.

Cast

Kirsten Dene

Anna

Karlheinz Hackl

Lukas Schuster

Marianne Hoppe

Hedwig Schuster

Therese Affolter

Hertha

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