Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga (2008)
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Karl Merkatz, Ingrid Burkhard, Erika Deutinger, Klaus Rott, Manuel Rubey, Alexander Waechter
As Mundl’s allotment cottage faces demolition, he is due to return to the housing estate he left while his wife tries to bring their family together.
The story
After leaving a municipal housing estate in Vienna, Edmund “Mundl” Sackbauer has lived for some time in an allotment-garden cottage in the area around Vienna. When the cottage is due to be demolished for a new residential complex, he is supposed to move back to the Großfeldsiedlung housing estate. Close to his eightieth birthday, Mundl has grown lonely; he neglected contact with his children, and they with him. He resents his daughter Hanni, who lives in Hamburg, for having become pregnant by a German man. His wife Antonia tries to reunite the family, but makes progress only slowly.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Thumbnail | left | Edmund “Mundl” Sackbauer (Karl Merkatz, 2015) After moving out of a municipal housing estate in Vienna, Edmund “Mundl” Sackbauer has been living for quite some time in an allotment-garden cottage in the area around Vienna. However, his house is due to be demolished to make way for a new residential complex, so he is supposed to move back to the Großfeldsiedlung housing estate. He is now close to his eightieth birthday and has grown lonely with age, as he has neglected contact with his children, and they with him. He also resents his daughter Hanni, who now lives in Hamburg, for having become pregnant by a German man. His grandson René, who is already a father himself, gives him a laptop, but Mundl does not know what to do with it. Because of Mundl’s loneliness, his wife Antonia tries to bring the family together, but she makes progress only slowly.
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