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The Excluded

5.9 97 mins Drama   1982
Director(s): Franz Novotny

Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "needs a little dirt in her life". The story provides penetrating insights into the Austria of the 50s, in which some enjoyed the benefits of the "Economic Miracle", while others were shut out. It repeatedly references Austria's Nazi past and the numerous ways in which it influences the present despite the conspiracy of silence which surrounds it.

Casts of The Excluded

Rudolf Wessely

as Otto

Emmy Werner

as Gretl

Paulus Manker

as Peter

Ursula Knobloch

as Anna

Christine Kaufmann

as Ms. Pachthofen

Toni Böhm

as Mr. Knopf

Elfriede Jelinek

as Anna's Teacher

Alexandra Curtis

as Sophie

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