The States: They were always no tenants, no savings club, no Joe Czerny. You understand?! I always thought: Say what you want because I'm leaving anyway.

Ein Anfang von etwas

6.2 (11 votes)• 1995• 86m•Released

Drama Romance

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Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.

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Languages: English, German

Director: Nikolaus Leytner

Starring Cast: Christoph Waltz, Sandra Cervik, Georg Trenkwitz, Inge Rosenberg, Wolfgang Böck, Adi Hirschal

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