'38 – Vienna Before the Fall

38 - Auch das war Wien
Directed by	Wolfgang Glück
Produced by	Michael von Wolkenstein Christine Gouze-Rénal (co-producer) Herbert Reutterer (executive producer)
Written by	Friedrich Torberg (novel) Wolfgang Glück
Starring	Tobias Engel Sunnyi Melles
Music by	Bert Grund
Cinematography	Gérard Vandenberg
Edited by	Heidi Handorf Wolfgang B. Heine
Distributed by	East West Classics
Release dates	1986 (1986) (Austria) 23 April 1987 (1987-04-23) (West Germany)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	West Germany Austria
Language	German

'38 – Vienna Before the Fall (German: 38 – Auch das war Wien) is a 1987 Austrian-West German co-produced drama film directed by Wolfgang Glück. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards. The German title is literally translated as '38 - That, too, was Vienna', but it is also known in English as '38 - Vienna Before the Fall. It is set in Vienna in 1937-38 at the time of the Anschluss.

Cast

• Tobias Engel as Martin
• Sunnyi Melles as Carola
• Heinz Trixner as Toni
• Romuald Pekny as Sovary
• Ingrid Burkhard as Frau Schostal
• Josef Fröhlich as Kemetter
• Tanja von Oertzen as Frau von Wartenburg

See also

• List of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• '38 – Vienna Before the Fall at IMDb
• 38 at AllMovie