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Synopsis

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.

Director

John Cook

Writers

Helmut Zenker, John Cook

Language

German

Country

Austria

Release date

1 January 1979

Ensemble

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