Das andere Leben
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Vienna, early summer 1944. The friendship of two women is put to the test: Suzette, a Jew, finds herself and her family facing increasingly severe hostility, while Elisabeth struggles to cope with her dutiful and war-wounded husband. When Suzette's husband dies, Elisabeth leaves no stone unturned to get her friend to safety - and unwittingly puts herself in grave danger ...
The film adaptation of Alexander Lernet-Holenia's novella "July 20" with a top-class cast interweaves the political and the private in a fateful way. DAS ANDERE LEBEN (The Other Life) is one of the few Austrian post-war films to address National Socialism and the resistance - and poses urgent questions of conscience to its audience, both then and now.
"One of the rare star moments of domestic cinema in the immediate postwar period." (MICHAEL OMASTA, FALTER)
