Joseph Roth - A Life in Legends
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| Original title | Joseph Roth - a life in legends |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Georg Madeja |
| script | Wolfgang Fleischer, Georg Majeda |
| production | Walter Mainz (production manager), Herbert Reutterer (production manager) |
| camera | Laszlo Nemeth, Harald Mittermüller |
| cut | Charlotte Müllner, Brigitte Melzer |
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Joseph Roth - a life in legends is a German-Austrian television film about the life of the Austrian writer Joseph Roth .
action
The film mainly covers the period from the beginning of Roth's writing career shortly after the First World War until his death in Paris in 1939. Various scenes show Roth mostly in cafes with his friends and fellow authors, e. B. in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Nice or Ostend. Central themes are, for example, Roth's strong alcohol addiction, his inner adherence to the fallen KuK monarchy, his suffering from exile, but also the relationship with his wife Friedl, her increasing mental illness and ultimately admission to a psychiatric institution.
production
The film is a co-production between ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1980, made by Satel Film . It was first broadcast on December 13, 1980 on ORF2 and on February 1, 1981 on BR television .
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