
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.
Directed by Rudolf Steinboeck
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Cast

Aglaja Schmid
Elisabeth Josselin

Gustav Waldau
Hofrat Buschek

Vilma Degischer
Suzette Alberti

Siegfried Breuer
Bukowsky

Erik Frey
Latheit

Erni Mangold
Mizzi

Robert Lindner
Major Walter Josselin

Leopold Rudolf
Dozent Thomas Alberti

Anton Edthofer
General Rissius
Hans Ziegler
Dr. Heinrich Joel
Carl Günther
Oberst Schönborn
Kurt Sowinetz
Patient im Warteraum von Dr. Joel

Ernst Waldbrunn
Überbringer der Hiobsbotschaft für Dr. Joel
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