38 – Auch das war Wien

• Tobias Engel: Martin
• Sunnyi Melles: Carola
• Heinz Trixner: Toni
• Lotte Ledl: Carol's mother
• Ingrid Burkhard: Woman Schostal
• Maria Singer: Ms. Pekarek
• David Cameron: Colonel
• Romuald Pekny: Sovary

38 - That was Vienna is an Austrian- German film from 1986 The film was based on the novel, too, was from Vienna Torberg. . In 1987 he was presented by Austria for an Oscar and was in the category " Best Foreign Film " nomination.

38 - That was Vienna has been published with the number 31 in the edition " The Austrian film " on DVD.

Action

The story begins in 1937 and plays between Vienna and Berlin. The actress Carola Light stands at the beginning of a promising career. She loves the assimilated Jewish writer Martin Hoffmann and moved with him in an apartment together. The two believe their love to be able to live in a non-political privacy, despite the political changes. On the occasion of a performance in Berlin makes Hell first experiences with the Gestapo. Because it does not respond at the agreed time, Hoffmann wants to travel to Berlin, despite warnings from friends, but the move taken off the train and searched. Back in Vienna, shows both the aggravation of the situation on the streets and in the reactions of the anti-Semitic janitor, the fellow actors or the housekeeper, whose socialist man is imprisoned. The housekeeper remembers the February battles in 1934 and offers Hoffmann for an emergency shelter in their council flat at. The Anschluss is completed and Hell shares with Hoffmann, that she is pregnant. Together they try to get the train to Prague, but Hoffmann brought the station out of the crowd, while she manages to escape. When he wants to accept the offer of the housekeeper, she dismisses him because her son is a Nazi and that would not go well. A taxi driver Hoffmann promises to bring him the next day to the border, but Hoffmann is still proportioned in the same night on the way home from the Gestapo.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film: The attempt tried to work up a dark chapter in German - Austrian history is, at best discussion worth noteworthy due to its topic.
• Prisma -online: Unfortunately, the result has maintained boredom with nostalgic images and an often annoying morality '.
• Dietrich Kuhlbrodt in epd film 6/87: Director Wolfgang Glück ( The student Gerber ) filmed the book " That was Vienna " by Torberg, is thus ensured a never-ending barrage of dialogues on Basic German (...) A nostalgic. Fashion Show from A to Z. (...) But then you go right back into the chamber play, that is on the minds of the lovers, alternately recite the Torbergsatz one after another. Since the actors have very limited over -expression, you look better not go. But that's not necessary, since the film dramaturgy eh exhausted in radio play technique. " 38 " is a school radio broadcast.

Quotes

• In times in which long since overcome Believed reappears, the past is not mastered 50 years later, to be niedergeschwiegen again: In such times as a film not to be too much. ( Wolfgang Glück )

Awards

The film was nominated in 1987 for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the category, but the film had to concede defeat The attack of Dutch filmmaker Fons Rademakers.