Welcome in Vienna – Partie 3 : Welcome in Vienna / Wohin und zurück – Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna

1945, Vienna. The war is over. Freddy Wolff and Georges Adler, immigrants to the United States, have become soldiers in the American army. Vienna is in ruins and divided into four zones. The black market reigns. Austria passes itself off as the innocent victim of Nazism and refuses to accept the truth. People adapt to the system as best they can, except for Freddy who rejects the general hypocrisy and nevertheless suffers because of his love for the young actress Claudia.

“Welcome in Vienna is a film of disappointed returns and compromises. Its love story follows the trajectory of the drama: enthusiasm, betrayal, cynicism. The key location, the catalyst of both hopes and memories is no longer a café where you nurse your illusions, but a theater that masks power games and political compromises. The last film is surely the most satisfactory of the trilogy: the starkest in terms of narrative, the most original and contemporary, the most melancholic and at the same time the darkest with its black humor.” N. T. Binh, Positif, mars 1987