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Ein Anfang von etwas

Ein Anfang von etwas

19951h 26m
DramaRomance

Status

Released

Release

1995

Runtime

1h 26m

Storyline

"The States: They were always no tenants, no savings club, no Joe Czerny. You understand?! I always thought: Say what you want because I'm leaving anyway."

Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 26m
Feb 21, 1995
Languages
EnglishGerman
Director
Nikolaus Leytner
Nikolaus Leytner
Production
ORF
ORF
Cult-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H.
Cult-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H.
Production Countries
Austria

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