Dying Bit by Bit

Dying Bit by Bit

88 mins | Drama | Nov. 19, 1981

An old man is to be evicted from his home. He is the last tenant in an old house. He refuses to leave the flat in which he has passed his whole life. All appeals asking him to be 'reasonable' are of no use. And when he finally gets out his shotgun, the cops appear and use tear gas to drive him out of his flat. He is put into a straitjacket and carried out of the house as someone who's 'aggressive and always grousing'. 'The film is a bitter elegy for the unknown Vienna, seen with the eyes of an old man. A remarkable Austrian film.'

Dying Bit by Bit

88 mins | Drama | Nov. 19, 1981

Dying Bit by Bit
An old man is to be evicted from his home. He is the last tenant in an old house. He refuses to leave the flat in which he has passed his whole life. All appeals asking him to be 'reasonable' are of no use. And when he finally gets out his shotgun, the cops appear and use tear gas to drive him out of his flat. He is put into a straitjacket and carried out of the house as someone who's 'aggressive and always grousing'. 'The film is a bitter elegy for the unknown Vienna, seen with the eyes of an old man. A remarkable Austrian film.'
Producers Unger/Madavi Filmproduktion
Original title Ein wenig sterben
Directors Gabi Prohaska, Mansur Madavi
Writers Dieter Schrage, Mansur Madavi

Cast

Fred Solm

as Walter Grünwald, the old man

Kurt Kosutic

as The house manager

Heribert Sasse

as The attorney

Inge Toifl

as The neighbour

Maria Martina

as The woman physician

Axel Klingenberg

as An old woman