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A Friendship in Vienna is a film of genre Drama directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman released in USA on 27 august 1988 with Jane Alexander
A Friendship in Vienna (1988)
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Add to a movie listA Friendship In Vienna is a 1988 Disney Channel film based on Doris Orgel's popular children's book
The Devil in Vienna. The film starred Jane Alexander, Stephen Macht and Edward Asner and premiered
August 27, 1988.
Synopsis
Lise Mueller (Kamie Harper) and Inge Dornenwald (Jenny Lewis) are 13-ish year old best friends in Vienna, Austria of 1938, in the months before and during the Anschluss. Lise is Catholic and Inge is Jewish. Trouble comes since Lise's father is a Nazi sympathizer who travels to and from Germany to join the paramilitary Nazi SA upon the upcoming Anschluss, bringing her mother, who is helpless to do anything about it, and her older brother, Heinz, who is himself a Nazi sympathizer like his father. Lise's father forbids Inge to visit them anymore and Inge's parents do likewise with her. But they both meet in secret, ex. the large cathedral in Vienna.Actors
Jane Alexander
(Hannah Dournenvald)
Edward Asnere
(Opah Oskar Reikman)
Dr. Stephen Macht
(Franz Dournenvald)
Jenny Lewis
(Inge Dournenvald)
Luisa Bradshaw-White
(Herte)
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