Projekt Ballhausplatz

How a group of young men managed to take over the government and lead it to the brink of democracy. What drove the “Praetorians” and why almost the entire country was at their feet. Why the European public marveled and admired this.

• Kurt LangbeinDirector
• Kurt LangbeinWriter

• Sebastian KurzSelf
• Helmut BrandstätterSelf
• Peko BaxantSelf
• Gernot BlümelSelf (archive footage)
• Gerald FleischmannSelf (archive footage)
• Julian HessenthalerSelf
• Thomas SchmidSelf (archive footage)
• Stefan SteinerSelf (archive footage)
• Gerald KnausSelf
• Matthias StrolzSelf