Der Herr Karl

Der Herr Karl

1967 · 60 min · ★ 8.2 · Comedy

The antihero "Mr. Karl" tells a "young person", the viewer, his life story while he sits at work in the warehouse of a delicatessen. The narrator increasingly turns out to be an opportunistic follower from the petty-bourgeois milieu, who maneuvered his way through life in the changing course of Austrian history from the end of the First World War to the end of the occupation in the 1950s.

Directed by Erich Neuberg · Written by Helmut Qualtinger

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