Overview
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the title "Mein Kampf". Hitler is rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Herzl's concern for the sad young man continues, and leads him to a new career with disastrous consequences for world history.
Cast
- Götz George as Schlomo Herzl
- Tom Schilling as Adolf Hitler
- Anna Unterberger as Gretchen
- Wolf Bachofner as Himmlischst
- Simon Schwarz as Max
- Henning Peker as Anton
- Elisabeth Orth as Frau Tod
- Paul Matic as Erich
- Ernst Stankovski as Rektor
- Marlen Ulonska as Klara Hitler