Released:
1984-12-30

Overview:
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?

Director:
Axel Corti

Runtime:
4h 0min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Friedrich von Thun
  as
  Leonidas Tachezy
• 
  Krystyna Janda
  as
  Amélie Tachezy
• 
  Friederike Kammer
  as
  Vera Wormser
• 
  Gabriel Barylli
  as
  Leonidas Tachezy (Jugendjahre)
• 
  Otto Schenk
  as
  Minister Spittelberger