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The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Just the arrival of newcomers is finished and the Polonaise faded as it is in the best tradition: "Alles Walzer". transferred with 20 cameras live throughout the world. Television journalist Fraser (Heiner Lauterbach) views the event from the control room, outside in the hall leads his son has one of the cameras. Suddenly all hell breaks loose: poison gas flows from hidden containers, hundreds of guests die in agony, millions of horrified spectators experience it on the TV screen...

Status: Released
Released Date: 1998-03-15
Runtime: 180 mins
Director: Urs Egger
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Original title: Opera ball
Production Companies: Sat.1, Constantin Film
Production Countries: Austria, Germany

Heiner Lauterbach

Franka Potente

Frank Giering

Caroline Goodall

Gudrun Landgrebe

Désirée Nosbusch

Wolfgang Böck

Martin Brambach

Max Moor

Richard Bohringer

Andreas Lust

Walter Schmidinger

Olivia Silhavy

Claus Peymann