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Opera ball

The Opera ball turns into a catastrophe this year - hundreds die in front of the cameras...
Mar 15, 1998 · 3h 0m
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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...

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Heiner Lauterbach
Kurt Frazer
Franka Potente
Gabrielle Becker
Frank Giering
Jörg Blahacek 'Ingenieur'
Caroline Goodall
Heather Frazer
Gudrun Landgrebe
Claudia Röhler
Désirée Nosbusch
Iris von Hagen
Wolfgang Böck
Reso Dorf, neuer Polizeipräsident
Martin Brambach
Der Lange, Terrorist
Directed by Urs Egger

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Sat.1, Constantin Film
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