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1979 96 min

Overview

Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.

Genres

Drama

Production Countries

Austria

Spoken Languages

German de

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Cast

Hermann Juranek

Hermann

Christa Schubert

Vera

Johanna Froidl

Frau Gretl

Franz Schuh

Ehrlich

Werner Juranek

Hermann's brother

Waltraud Misak

Rosi

Josef Boselmann

Hermann's father

Elisabeth Boselmann

Hermann's mother

Crew

John Cook

Director

Rudolf Klingohr

Producer

John Cook

Writer

Posters

External Links

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