The Other Life (1948)
The film tells the story of a young Jewish woman who, during the Nazi era, is hidden by her friend, treated in a hospital using her identity papers, and dies there. As a result, her friend loses her official identity. For the first time, the question of the behavior of friends, neighbors, caretakers, and strangers during the persecution of Vienna's Jewish population is raised. Ostensibly, "The Other Life" is a gripping play on identity, but overall, it is an astonishing demonstration of the civil courage of Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976), who, shortly after the war, addressed the then-taboo subject of the persecution of the Jews in his literary work. The ambitious film studio of the Theater in der Josefstadt, which did not last long, took up the material and filmed it with the theater's actors.
Director: Rudolf Steinboeck
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Aglaja Schmid as Elisabeth Josselin |
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Gustav Waldau as Hofrat Buschek |
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Vilma Degischer as Suzette Alberti |
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Siegfried Breuer as Bukowsky |
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Erik Frey as Latheit |
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Erni Mangold as Mizzi |
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Robert Lindner as Major Walter Josselin |
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Leopold Rudolf as Dozent Thomas Alberti |
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Anton Edthofer as General Rissius |
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Hans Ziegler as Dr. Heinrich Joel |
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Carl Günther as Oberst Schönborn |
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Kurt Sowinetz as Patient im Warteraum von Dr. Joel |
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Ernst Waldbrunn as Überbringer der Hiobsbotschaft für Dr. Joel |
| Directing | Rudolf Steinboeck | Director |
| Writing | Alfred Ibach | Writer |
| Writing | Alexander Lernet-Holenia | Novel |
