Director: Wilhelm Hengstler
Script: Wilhelm Hengstler, Bernhard Seiter, nach einer Romanvorlage von Jack Unterweger
Cast: Bobby Prem, Romeo Sitar, Jürgen Goslar, Jeanette Mühlmann
Camera: Jirí Stibr
Editor: Eliska Stibrova
Location Sound: Walter Fiklocki
Production Design: Andrea Jaufer-Zahlbruckner
Costumes: Renee Diamant
Producers: Dieter Pochlatko
Production: epo-Film

Jack Unterweger: Two screenplays, two films. Condemned serial killer of women, literary figure in prison, underworld dandy. With reference to Elisabeth Scharang’s current competition contribution JACK, the Diagonale is screening Wilhelm Hengstler’s prize-winning 1988 adaptation of Unterweger’s novel “Fegefeuer”, staged as film noir. Additionally, the two directors will discuss their cinematic approach to the ambivalent character in a “Let’s talk about scripts! Spezial.”