Ein Anfang von etwas backdrop

Ein Anfang von etwas 1995 Directed by Nikolaus Leytner

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.

Production Country Austria
Language German
Spoken Languages English , German
Gneres Drama , Romance
Production Companies ORF , Cult-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H.
Release Date 21 February 1995
86 mins
Cast
Christoph Waltz Herbert Sobieski
Sandra Cervik Rita Rosner
Inge Rosenberg Thekla Sobieski
Wolfgang Böck Joe Czerny
Adi Hirschal Alois "Luis" Hummel
Sandra Kreisler Mrs. Menzel
Hans Wolfgang Pemmer Mr. Pfeiffer
Florentín Groll Briefträger
Peter Faerber Chefarzt
Roswitha Meyer Reisebüroangestellte
Silvia Fenz Greißlerin
Gudrun Tielsch Ritas Freundin
Alois Frank Hausverwalter
Julia Cencig Arzthilfe
Hanna Held Frau im Gasthaus
Roland Neuwirth Sänger im Gasthaus