38 – Auch das war Wien

"In times when things that were thought to have been overcome long ago resurface, when the past has not been overcome even 50 years later and is to be hushed up again: In times like these, a film like this can't be too much." (Wolfgang Glück) Austria's archetypal contribution to the Holocaust film genre. 1938: The signs point to "Anschluss" to the Greater German Nazi Empire. The Jew-haters on Vienna's streets have gone from being silent rabble-rousers to open agitators. Theatre star Carola and Jewish author Martin, lovers with career plans, don't give a damn about the political upheaval - until the upheaval takes care of them ... Six years after Truffaut's LA DERNIER MÉTRO and six before SCHINDLERS LISTE, Glück has reached his personal zenith with the first red-white-red Oscar nomination. (Paul Poet)