Vienna 1945: The powder keg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of nine-year old Christine. Bombed out and penniless, she and her family are put up in a fancy villa in the outskirts of Vienna, ...

  Austrian filmmaker Mirjam Unger first encountered the work of fellow countrywoman and children books’ writer Christine Nöstlinger in a play she had watched that was adapted from  Nöstlinger’s poems. Curious to find out if Nöstlinger had written any books for adults, ...