Movie: Kassbach - Ein Portrait

Top 10 Billed Cast

Walter Kohut
Walter Kohut

Karl Kassbach

Immy Schell
Immy Schell

Wife

Maria Engelstorfer
Maria Engelstorfer

Mother

Franz Buchrieser
Franz Buchrieser

Friend

Hanno Pöschl
Hanno Pöschl

Friend

Erni Mangold
Erni Mangold

Liesi's mother

Konrad Becker
Konrad Becker

Son

Monika Schöpfer
Monika Schöpfer

Liesi

Hans Kraemmer
Hans Kraemmer

friend

Franz Novotny
Franz Novotny

suitor

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    Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes.

  • Release Date

    1979-03-30

  • Average

    6

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
  • Tagline

    Kassbach is no monster, he is terribly normal.

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  • Languages:

    Deutsch
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