The Inheritors
6.6
A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?
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Nikolas Vogel
Thomas Feigl
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Bibos Männer
Wolfgang Gasser
Dr. Norbert Fürst, NEP Party Leader
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Kurt Jaggberg
Lehrer
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The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk
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Alexander Wussow
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The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Schlosshotel Orth
Rudi Schippel
Kriegsveteran
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The Punch Bowl
Roger Schauer
Charly
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Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard
Thomas' mother
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Jaromír Borek
Thomas' father
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Der Salzbaron
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Edd Stavjanik
Schneider, Youth Leader
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Operation Walküre
Herzklopfen
Frank Dietrich
Charly's father
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Omer Pacha
Sterben werd' ich, um zu leben - Gustav Mahler
Johanna Tomek
Charly's mother
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Der Traum des Sandino
Süßes Holz
Gerhard Swoboda
Journalist
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Walter Bannert Director · Erich A. Richter Story Hanus Polak Cinematographer
United States release January 11, 1985 · Produced in Austria · Production Monarex Hollywood Corporation
Production
Bannert-Film
Production
Monarex Hollywood Corporation
Production
Austria
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Languages
Original title
Die Erben
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Austria · November 3, 1982
Premiere · Viennale
Austria · February 25, 1983
Theatrical
United States · January 11, 1985
Theatrical
Germany
November 25, 1983 · Theatrical
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