Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Hermann Juranek, Christa Schubert, Johanna Froidl, Franz Schuh, Werner Juranek, Waltraud Misak
Crew: John Cook (Director), Susanne Schett (Editor), Rudolf Klingohr (Producer), Helmut Zenker (Novel), John Cook (Writer), Helmut Pirnat (Director of Photography)
Country: Austria
Language: Deutsch
Studio: ebf-Film
Runtime: 96 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1979
IMDb: 10
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