Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The widowed, free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar also houses refugees in his home. These are a special thorn in Karl's side.
Marie's father in law dies and leaves the world with his last wish being Marie and her husband to move into his house. Unfortunately Marie's hypochondriac mother in law isn't happy at all with the whole situation...
Вена, 1902 год. Альма Шиндлер знакомится с Густавом Малером. Она юна, красива и сочиняет музыку, которая составляет всю её жизнь. Вскоре Альма становится возлюбленной Малера, а затем его женой. Но суровый муж просит Альму бросить сочинительство. Родив Малеру двух детей, она долгие годы была его секретарем и спасала от долгов. Но все это время она чувствовала себя бесконечно подавленной. После скоропостижной смерти ребенка, Альма знакомится с архитектором Вальтером Гропиусом и влюбляется в него. Ей предстоит непростой выбор: бежать с любовником или остаться с Малером…
An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an early widowers pension.
An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an early widowers pension.
Tommy can't take it anymore. At home, the 14-year-old Vienna boy is the only man among many women: Sister, mom, grandma and great-grandma tugging at Tommy's nerves, also the schoolboy suffers from lovesickness. Nothing left to do but get out so Tommy travels to his father Hubert. Shortly after Tommy arrives there, grandma Lore-Mu and the rest of the clan join…
