The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
In April 1945, as Jewish prisoners on a death march from Hungary reach an abandoned barn near an Austrian village, their SS guards vanish, leaving them starving, freezing and helpless while villagers remain divided over their fate. Desperate for food and hope, a former Budapest opera singer among them devises a plan: with fellow inmates and willing villagers, they stage Johann Strauss’s “Wiener Blut” in the barn to earn the means to survive.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Key crew
- Elisabeth ScharangDirector
- Silke HasslerWriter
- Peter TurriniWriter
- Elisabeth ScharangWriter
Cast
- Johannes KrischFasching
- Orsolya TóthZsuzsa Breuer
- Ursula StraussTraudl Fasching
- Thomas FränzelRaphael Glasberg
- August SchmölzerWerner Springenschmied
- Joachim BißmeierFerdinand v. Hammersfeld
- Franziska SingerCast
- Rainer EggerCast
- Végh PéterCast
- Günter TolarCast