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- Runtime
- 265 mins
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
Cast
- Bruno Ganz
- Franziska Walser
- Peter Simonischek
- Mathieu Carrière
- Manfred Zapatka
- Thomas Holtzmann
- Jutta Speidel
- Gerd Anthoff
- Günter Mack
- Dietrich Mattausch
- Toni Berger
- Gustl Bayrhammer
- Wilfried Klaus
- Anton Feichtner
- Elfriede Kuzmany
- Werner Asam
- Anouschka Renzi
- Hansi Kraus
- Willy Harlander
- Udo Thomer
- Bernhard Wicki
- Ernst Jacobi
- Martin Benrath
- Heide Ackermann
Director
- Franz Seitz Junior
