Movie

Heldenplatz

★ 10/10 · 1 votes 1989 3h 15m Released

Drama

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

W Wolfgang Gasser Robert Schuster Kirsten Dene Anna Karlheinz Hackl Lukas Schuster Marianne Hoppe Hedwig Schuster Therese Affolter Hertha E Elisabeth Rath Olga