When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.
Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by...
В дебютном фильме режиссера Михаэля Ханеке показываются фрагменты из трёх лет жизни преуспевающей австрийской семьи. Как и у всех, она не обходится без хлопот и волнений — то у мужа проблемы на работе, то у брата жены очередной приступ депрессии, то дочь начинает прикидываться ослепшей. Ну а в целом жизнь их настолько однообразна и скучна, что они понимают — больше так жить нельзя. И принимают решение всё бросить и уехать в Австралию. Или ещё куда-нибудь. Главное, подальше от монотонности будней.
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.
One day the landlord Smirnov demands the widow Popova to pay an old debt which her husband left. She has no money at home and begs Smirnov to wait. The polite conversation turns quickly into an argument. Popova fetches the pistols. Smirnov realizes now that he’s in love with Popova. He confesses his love.
