WELCOME IN VIENNA is the first and only film made on the subject of Austrian and German emigres to the US who joined the US Army and then returned to their homeland in 1944 with the American liberating forces.
Beautifully photographed in grainy black-and-white (which gives a documentary visual quality), the film, set in 1944, centers around Barylli, an Austrian Jew who has longed for this return home, and Brieger, a German intellectual who fled to the States in fear of the Nazis and has now become
sympathetic to the Communists. Heading their command is a tough-talking, hard-drinking German-American, Kemmer, who firmly believes in Teutonic anti-Semitism. The film...
Released:
1986
Rated:
NR
Length:
126 mins