Opera ball

The Opera ball turns into a catastrophe this year - hundreds die in front of the cameras...

Opera ball — Plot

The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Just the arrival of newcomers is finished and the Polonaise faded as it is in the best tradition: "Alles Walzer". transferred with 20 cameras live throughout the world. Television journalist Fraser (Heiner Lauterbach) views the event from the control room, outside in the hall leads his son has one of the cameras. Suddenly all hell breaks loose: poison gas flows from hidden containers, hundreds of guests die in agony, millions of horrified spectators experience it on the TV screen...

• Release date
• March 15, 1998
• Runtime
• 180 min
• Genres
• Drama, Thriller
• Director
• Urs Egger

Opera ball — Cast

Heiner Lauterbach Kurt Frazer Franka Potente Gabrielle Becker Frank Giering Jörg Blahacek 'Ingenieur' Caroline Goodall Heather Frazer Gudrun Landgrebe Claudia Röhler Désirée Nosbusch Iris von Hagen Wolfgang Böck Reso Dorf, neuer Polizeipräsident Martin Brambach Der Lange, Terrorist