Heldenplatz (movie)

Heldenplatz (movie)

  • Production country: Germany
  • Producer: Claus Peymann
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release date: 1/1/1989
  • Run time: 195 min.

Movie description

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.

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Wolfgang Gasser

Wolfgang Gasser

Role(s): Robert Schuster

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Kirsten Dene

Kirsten Dene

Role(s): Anna

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Karlheinz Hackl

Karlheinz Hackl

Role(s): Lukas Schuster

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Marianne Hoppe

Marianne Hoppe

Role(s): Hedwig Schuster

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Therese Affolter

Therese Affolter

Role(s): Hertha

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