Success (1991)

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.

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Top billed cast

Bruno GanzJacques Tüverlin
Franziska WalserJohanna Krain
Peter SimonischekDr. Martin Krüger
Mathieu CarrièreErich Bornhaak
Manfred ZapatkaKaspar Pröckl
Thomas HoltzmannDr. Franz Flaucher
Jutta SpeidelKatharina von Radolny
Gerd AnthoffPaul Hessreither
Günter MackFörtsch
Dietrich MattauschDr. Hartl - Amtsgerichtspräsident

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