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Vienna Is Different: 50 Years After the Anschluss

Original title: Vienna Is Different: 50 Years After the Anschluss
Year: 1989
Running time: 75 min.
Country: United States
Director: Susan Korda, David W. Leitner
Screenwriter: David W. Leitner
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: David W. Leitner
Producer: Leitmotif Filmproduction
Genre: Documentary | II World War
Synopsis: When Hitler's army invaded Austria in 1938, not a shot was fired. His motorcade sped across the border toward his birthplace, Vienna, to the cheers of Austrian citizens. So begins Vienna Is Different, a searing psychological study of a nation and its citizenry. Shot in and around Vienna and Braunau in March of 1988 during the official "Year of Reflection," a month-long commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Auschluss, the film holds a mirror up to the Austrian people who, as Strauss's Die Flederma us alarmingly si ngs, forget what cannot he changed anyway. Filmmakers Korda and Leitner ask about Austrian responsibility to history at the height of the Kurt Waldheim controversy over his shrouded past as a member of Hitler's army.

Awards: 1990: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)

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Vienna Is Different: 50 Years After the Anschluss

1989

Susan Korda, David W. Leitner