Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.
John Cook
Director, Writer
Hermann Juranek
Hermann
Christa Schubert
Vera
Johanna Froidl
Frau Gretl
Franz Schuh
Ehrlich
Werner Juranek
Hermann's brother
Waltraud Misak
Rosi
Josef Boselmann
Hermann's father
Elisabeth Boselmann
Hermann's mother
Paula63%
Salomé62%
Hands of Stone66%
La joven69%
El Chicano66%
Come Sunday58%
Three Christs66%
Broke70%
The Hummingbird Project61%
Mexicali76%
The Nest60%
What Maisie Knew71%
I'm Not Here58%
In den Gängen68%
Skin64%
Five Minutes of Heaven61%
Hungry Hearts65%
Hello63%
The Cut59%
Farming62%
