“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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Christoph Waltz
Herbert Sobieski
Known for
Django Unchained
Inglourious Basterds
Sandra Cervik
Rita Rosner
Known for
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
Nikolaus Leytner
Niki List
Also in
I Love Vienna
Mother's Day
Georg Trenkwitz
Hans
Also in
Der Salzbaron
Die Nachtmeerfahrt
Inge Rosenberg
Thekla Sobieski
Also in
Two Times Lotte
the Detour
Wolfgang Böck
Joe Czerny
Known for
Benny's Video
The Red Violin
Adi Hirschal
Alois "Luis" Hummel
Also in
Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau
Die Tür
Karl Markovics
Schurl
Known for
Babylon Berlin
The Counterfeiters
Sandra Kreisler
Mrs. Menzel
Also in
Hotel Paradies
Kaisermühlen Blues
Claudia Martini
Doris
Known for
Hagazussa
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Hans-Wolfgang Pemmer
Mr. Pfeiffer
Also in
Hinterholz 8
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Nikolaus Leytner Director · Eric Spitzer Composer Hans Selikovsky Cinematographer
First release February 21, 1995 · Produced in Austria · Languages English, German
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ORF
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Cult-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H.
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Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Production
Austria
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Original language
German
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English · German
Release dates
Austria · February 21, 1995
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No release date listed for United States.
Germany
February 21, 1995
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