Heldenplatz

Heldenplatz 1989 Directed by Claus Peymann

Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.

Country Germany

Production Country Germany

Language German

Gnere Drama

Release Date 1 January 1989

195 mins