Madeleine Montana lives in her self-created world and in the fantasy that she is still a famous bestselling author. The taboo-free cynic has a sharp tongue against everyone and everything - including her own son Oliver. When a serial killer terrorizes Vienna, it turns out that the crimes are based on scenarios from Madeleine's books.
Acting
Christiane Hörbiger devours scenery as the monstrous mother.
Direction
Bigler's Vienna drips with literary rot and old money dread.
Director
Sascha Bigler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a real Austrian crime phenomenon where killers mimicked fictional plots, blurring creator and culprit responsibility.
Hörbiger, Austrian acting royalty, reportedly took the role specifically to subvert her own 'beloved mother' screen persona.
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