The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Just the arrival of newcomers is finished and the Polonaise faded as it is in the best tradition: "Alles Walzer". transferred with 20 cameras live throughout the world. Television journalist Fraser (Heiner Lauterbach) views the event from the control room, outside in the hall leads his son has one of the cameras. Suddenly all hell breaks loose: poison gas flows from hidden containers, hundreds of guests die in agony, millions of horrified spectators experience it on the TV screen...
Direction
Urs Egger wrings genuine panic from glacial Austrian formalism.
Production
The Opera House becomes a suffocating character itself.
Acting
Franka Potente before Run Lola Run, already electric.
Director
Urs Egger
Heiner Lauterbach
Kurt Frazer
Franka Potente
Gabrielle Becker
Caroline Goodall
Heather Frazer
Gudrun Landgrebe
Claudia Röhler
Désirée Nosbusch
Iris von Hagen
Wolfgang Böck
Reso Dorf, neuer Polizeipräsident
Martin Brambach
Der Lange, Terrorist
Max Moor
Günther
Richard Bohringer
Michel Reboisson
Andreas Lust
Polizist Amon
Walter Schmidinger
Dr. Leitner
Olivia Silhavy
Paula
Hans-Michael Rehberg
Tomek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Vienna Opera Ball remains one of Europe's most exclusive events; using it as a terror target was deliberately provocative class commentary that scandalized Austrian critics.
Heiner Lauterbach's control room performance was filmed in actual ORF broadcast facilities, with real 1990s switching equipment that operators found uncomfortably authentic.
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