Movielogr
Opera ball (1998)
Directed by Urs Egger
Overview
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…
Length 180 minutes
Actors
Heiner Lauterbach | Franka Potente | Frank Giering | Caroline Goodall | Gudrun Landgrebe | Désirée Nosbusch | Wolfgang Böck | Martin Brambach | Max Moor | Richard Bohringer | Andreas Lust | Walter Schmidinger | Olivia Silhavy | Claus Peymann | Hans-Michael Rehberg | Georg Friedrich | Lukas Miko | Branko Samarovski | Lotte Ledl