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.
Jonathan Zaccaï
as Maximilien Bardo
Ute Lemper
as Catherine Gless
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
as Jeanne Eberlen
André Wilms
as Bicken
Jan Peszek
as Kaltfish
Janusz Gajos
as Cinqueda
Wojciech Pszoniak
as Ottenhagen
Anna Seniuk
as
Aleksander Bardini
as
Michał Pawlicki
as
Paweł Wilczak
as
Piotr Szulkin
as
