The Other Life (1948)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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