26 Sep 2014
In the Basement
Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and fetishes.
The Fall of the Habsburgs
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I, however, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire sowed the seeds of its own demise. At the height of World War I, the world of the Habsburgs was on the brink of collapse. Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, in April 1918, the most sensitive diplomatic mission of the First World War became a Europe-wide scandal: the so-called "Sixtus Affair". Secret negotiations between the Austrian imperial family and France were supposed to bring peace to the Danube monarchy – and their failure caused the war to escalate and the Habsburgs to fall.
Top Billed Cast
Eszter Hollósi Narrator
Dörte Lyssewski Narrator
Dieter Witting Narrator
Leopold Altenburg Kaiser Karl
Daniela Golpashin Kaiserin Zita
Raphael von Bargen Tamás Graf Erdödy
Jens Claßen King George V
Stanislaus Dick Prinz Sixtus von Bourbon-Parma
Thomas Eichhorn Außenminister Graf Ottokar Czernin
Hans Holzbecher Kaiser Wilhelm II
Ludwig Kaschke Paul von Hindenburg
Howard Nightingall Captain Athur Snagge
Johannes Seilern Erich Ludendorff
Alexander Knaipp Prinz Xavier de Bourbon-Parma
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