This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.

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Cast

Jonathan Zaccaï

Maximilien Bardo

Ute Lemper

Catherine Gless

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Jeanne Eberlen

André Wilms

Bicken

Jan Peszek

Kaltfish

Janusz Gajos

Cinqueda

Wojciech Pszoniak

Ottenhagen

Anna Seniuk

Aleksander Bardini

Michał Pawlicki

Paweł Wilczak

Piotr Szulkin