My Best Enemy

“One of the Berlinale's best films.” (The Moving Arts Film Journal)

Genre Tragicomedy
Year of Production 2010
Director Wolfgang Murnberger
Principal Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller, Udo Samel, Uwe Bohm
Length 106 mins
International Festival Screenings Berlin 2011

Vienna in the 1930s. Since his childhood, Victor Kaufmann, the son of wealthy Jewish gallery owners, has been close friends with Rudi Smekal. Victor’s girlfriend, the perky and attractive Lena, rounds off the inseparable trio that vows to stick together come hell or high water. The Kaufmanns are shocked when Rudi shows up in an SS uniform after the annexation of Austria. The whole family is sent to a concentration camp, against Rudi’s will. Years later, the Nazi bosses in Berlin want to present Italy’s Duce with a confiscated Michelangelo sketch that belongs to the Kaufmanns. But the sketch is a forgery. They want the genuine Michelangelo! Rudi is ordered to get Victor out of the concentration camp to bring him to Berlin for interrogation, unleashing a series of fatal events.

Wolfgang Murnberger was born in 1960 in Wiener Neustadt (Austria). He studied Scriptwriting,
Directing and Editing at the Film Academy Vienna. His films include: Himmel oder Hölle (1990),
Ich Gelobe (1994), Attwengerfilm (1995), Komm Süsser Tod (2000), Silentium (2004),
and The Bone Man (2009).

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