Farewell

Overview

Vienna in the early eighties: After a suicide attempt, Tina, who comes from a middle-class family, is hospitalized in a psychiatric ward. There she gets to know Gerhard, an apprentice plumber, who also wanted to do away with himself. He comes from a working class family. They fall for each other. A modern love story which is set inside the real life circumstances of the closing of the alternative Youth Center "Gassergasse" in Vienna.

Directed by Käthe Kratz

Top cast

H

Henriette Cejpek

Tina

Johannes Silberschneider

Gerhard

M

Maria Martina

Tina's mother

H

Hubert Kronlachner

Gerhard's father

M

Maria Singer

Gerhard's mother

S

Sigi Maron

Sigi

Paola Loew

Sister Fidelitas

B

Bernd Spitzer

therapist

Andreas Vitásek

patient

Georg Trenkwitz

head of the hospital

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