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Heldenplatz

Heldenplatz

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  • Austria
  • 1989

Director Claus Peymann
Cast Wolfgang Gasser, Kirsten Dene, Karlheinz Hackl, Marianne Hoppe, Therese Affolter
Genre Drama

Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.

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