

Ein Anfang von etwas
1995, German. Directed by Nikolaus Leytner.
The States: They were always no tenants, no savings club, no Joe Czerny. You understand?! I always thought: Say what you want because I'm leaving anyway.
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Nikolaus LeytnerDirector
- Christoph WaltzHerbert Sobieski
- Sandra CervikRita Rosner
- Georg TrenkwitzHans
- Inge RosenbergThekla Sobieski
- Wolfgang BöckJoe Czerny
- Adi HirschalAlois "Luis" Hummel
- Karl MarkovicsSchurl
- Sandra KreislerMrs. Menzel
- Claudia MartiniDoris
- Hans-Wolfgang PemmerMr. Pfeiffer
- Florentin GrollBriefträger
- Peter FaerberChefarzt
Details
- Released
- 21 February 1995
- Country
- Austria
- Written by
- Nikolaus Leytner
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Ein Anfang von etwas runs 86 minutes (1h 26m).
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Ein Anfang von etwas isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 February 1995. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Ein Anfang von etwas?
Ein Anfang von etwas (1995) was directed by Nikolaus Leytner and stars Christoph Waltz, Sandra Cervik, Georg Trenkwitz.