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Return to Vienna

6.619831h 31mMovieDocumentary

Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the variety of the Jewish population of the so called Matzah-Island, his commitment to the worker’s movement of the Red Vienna and the rise of Austro-fascism and National Socialism.…

DirectorRuth Beckermann
WriterRuth Beckermann

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Cast · Directed by Ruth Beckermann

FW
Franz West
Himself
PLPaola Loew
Paola Loew
Narrator

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