Erfolg
Released: February 28, 1991Runtime: 265 minLanguage: DE
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
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Bruno Ganz
as Jacques Tüverlin
Franziska Walser
as Johanna Krain
Peter Simonischek
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Mathieu Carriere
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Gudrun Gabriel
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Manfred Zapatka
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Thomas Holtzmann
as Dr. Franz Flaucher
Jutta Speidel
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Gerd Anthoff
as Paul Hessreither
Gunter Mack
as Förtsch
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