Film Screening
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods)
Nov 11 — Nov 11, 2024
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman's downward spiral after leaving her bourgeois life.
Directed by Maximilian Schell (1979)
In German. 90 min.
Based on the theater play by Ödön von Horváth, the film tells of the fate of a young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with the shady gambler Alfred. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.