Heldenplatz

Heldenplatz — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 1, 1989
• Runtime
• 195 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Claus Peymann

Heldenplatz — Cast

W

Wolfgang Gasser Robert Schuster Kirsten Dene Anna Karlheinz Hackl Lukas Schuster Marianne Hoppe Hedwig Schuster Therese Affolter Hertha

E

Elisabeth Rath Olga

A

Anneliese Römer Frau Zittel