Everymans Feast

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the bigbudget drama Jedermanns Fest based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal which in turn was based on a medieval tale Originated in parts of England the myth of Jan Jedermann John Everyman deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his lifes failures Not following much of a plot the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann Klaus Maria Brandauer imagining his last big gala event while rendered unconscious as a result of a car accident in his Ferrari He is a success in Vienna but not in fashionable Paris so he wishes to impress French elder stateswoman Yvonne Becker Juliette Greco