Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:ebfFilm
Cast & Crew
H
Hermann Juranek
as Hermann
C
Christa Schubert
as Vera
J
Johanna Froidl
as Frau Gretl
W
Werner Juranek
as Hermann's brother
W
Waltraud Misak
as Rosi
Clinch
1 hr 36 minDrama
Plot
Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria Canadianborn John Cook 19352001 remained in his own words Viennese by choice Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris Cooks first regular production was Schwitzkasten based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker Today the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema a freewheeling tender and strangely humorous portrait of workingclass and outofwork lives
