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MY FATHER, MY WIFE AND MY LOVER

By Michael KREIHSL

Drama - Completed 2004

- Year of production
- 2004
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- AUSTRIA, POLAND
- Director(s)
- Michael KREIHSL
- Synopsis
- Family Saga Recounts the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The film represents the journey of a bourgeois family in the last few years before Austria-Hungary decreed its demise by starting WW I in 1914.
  Ernst (Florian Stetter), son of a respected ophthalmologist who runs his family with a strong hand, expecting his son to become a doctor also. But Ernst's first days as a doctor is far from his father's ideals. He marries the pregnant house maid to preserve family honor only to discover that she lied about his causing the pregnancy.
  After suffering this deception, Ernst begins a torrid romance with a noble, married woman. Both risk everything to live out their great love. However, as Ernst's medical career evolves, as a war doctor, his personal life bites the dust.
  Ernst ensuing conflicts with his father, his (ex) wife, his lover, and his wish to embrace psychiatry (against his father will) are all influenced and interact with the end of the war, and Austria's new fate.