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In the spring of 1902, Viennese working-class daughter Marie König runs away from her beating father and is lured into a high-class brothel by an agent. Instead of the promised self-determined life "with horse-drawn carriage rides and silk dresses", she experiences closed doors, violence and exploitation. Only after years of agony does Marie confide in the journalist Emil Bader, who makes the conditions in the brothel public and takes the owner, Regine Riehl, to court.Read moreLess
In the spring of 1902, Viennese working-class daughter Marie König runs away from her beating father and is lured into a high-class brothel by an agent. Instead of the promised self-determined life "with horse-drawn carriage rides and silk dresses", she experiences closed doors, violence and exploitation. Only after years of agony does Marie confide in the journalist Emil Bader, who makes the conditions in the brothel public and takes the owner, Regine Riehl, to court.
The story
In the spring of 1902, Viennese working-class daughter Marie König runs away from her beating father and is lured into a high-class brothel by an agent. Instead of the promised self-determined life "with horse-drawn carriage rides and silk dresses", she experiences closed doors, violence and exploitation. Only after years of agony does Marie confide in the journalist Emil Bader, who makes the conditions in the brothel public and takes the owner, Regine Riehl, to court.
Cast & crew
Maria HofstätterRegine Riehl
Markus SchleinzerFeigl
Alice ProsserMarie König
Julia WozekAnna Christ
Fanny AltenburgerMarie Winkler
Clemens Aap Lindenberg
Franz Weichenberger
Rainer DopplerFriedrich KönigExplore the crew
- Director
- Stefan Ludwig
- Writer
- Stefan Ludwig
- Editor
- Robert Zapletal
- Producer
- Gabriele Wistawel
- Producer
- Wolfgang Widerhofer
- Producer
- Michael Kitzberger
- Producer
- Markus Glaser
- Producer
- Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Producer
- Elisabeth Faber