Moos auf den Steinen

A dilapidated castle in the Marchfeld region: the literary man Petrik and the business-minded Mehlmann become entangled in fundamental discussions about the status quo in Austria, the forces at work within it and which manifest themselves in the castle's inhabitants, above all Erika Pluhar in her cinema debut as the young baroness Julia ... With MOOS AUF DEN STEINEN, restored by the Filmarchiv Austria in 2018, modern cinema comes to Austria: Lhotsky borrows from Resnais, Fellini and Antonioni, but turns it into a sui generis work of art, the likes of which have never been seen in this country before, and always finds symbolic equivalents for the pain of memory. "Play it for real, children!" The call at the end is definitely meant as a wish for more realism in cinema itself.