
Overview
Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young KuK officer, discovers how much the defeat has transformed Vienna and his people. He is stunned by the new order of things. Having lost his entire fortune and his wife, who is having a sapphic relationship with a Hungarian artist, he tries to regain his place in a world that appears devastated.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (1973)
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Setting
Set in Austria
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Music
Music by Eberhard Schoener
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Wolfgang Treu
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Johannes SchaafScreenplay
- Maximilian SchellScreenplay
- Joseph RothNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 16, 1971
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany


























