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.