'38

'38 (1986)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Period Film, Political Drama, Romantic Drama  |   Run Time - 97 min.  |   Countries - Austria, Germany  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Nineteen-thirty-eight was the last year of stability for the city of Vienna before the maelstrom of Nazism. This dramatization of the city's final months of sanity stars Tobias Engel as a successful Jewish theatrical impresario, evidently modelled on Max Reinhardt. Engel falls in love with the gorgeous Sunnyi Melles, who happens to be non-Jewish. Love unfortunately does not conquer all in this star-crossed affair. Filmed on location in Germany and Austria, 38: Vienna Before the Fall was given an R rating due to isolated moments of nudity, dubbed-in profanity, and violence.

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cross-cultural-relations, enemy, Germany, Judaism, love, Nazism, nudity, prejudice, romance, violence