Der Fall Ö.

Name: Der Fall Ö.
Director: Rainer Simon
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1991-04-03
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 7.75
Cast: Matthias Habich, Sebastian Hartmann, Tatiana Lygari, Jan Josef Liefers, Christos Tsagas

1991

1h 35m

Drama War

Director: Rainer Simon

Writers: Ulrich Plenzdorf, Franz Fühmann

Overview

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.