The Other Life

The film tells the story of a young Jewish woman who, during the Nazi era, is hidden by her friend, treated in a hospital using her identity papers, and dies there. As a result, her friend loses her official identity. For the first time, the question of the behavior of friends, neighbors, caretakers, and strangers during the persecution of Vienna's Jewish population is raised. Ostensibly, "The Other Life" is a gripping play on identity, but overall, it is an astonishing demonstration of the civil courage of Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976), who, shortly after the war, addressed the then-taboo subject of the persecution of the Jews in his literary work. The ambitious film studio of the Theater in der Josefstadt, which did not last long, took up the material and filmed it with the theater's actors.

Cast

Aglaja Schmid Elisabeth Josselin Gustav Waldau Hofrat Buschek Vilma Degischer Suzette Alberti Siegfried Breuer Bukowsky Erik Frey Latheit Erni Mangold Mizzi Robert Lindner Major Walter Josselin Leopold Rudolf Dozent Thomas Alberti Anton Edthofer General Rissius

Hans Ziegler Dr. Heinrich Joel

Carl Günther Oberst Schönborn Kurt Sowinetz Patient im Warteraum von Dr. Joel

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