Walter Peters Filmproduktion

Molly wants to hear a story so Leo tells her about how he lost his reflection that morning while shaving. Austria's submission to the Academy Award foreign film competition in 1984.

The year is 1945. The final battle for Vienna has begun. Hitler declares the capital of the "Ostmark", as Austria was called then, a stand-off of the Third Reich against the Red Army; a last attempt to turn the tables yet. A group of Austrian resistance fighters recognize the impossibility and enable the Russians to occupy the city - this action was known as the "Radetzky Operation" - and with it Vienna was saved from complete destruction by the Allies. The operation was headed by Carl Szokoll.

The first twenty years of Adelheid Dworak's life (1869 to 1889) are traced in a mixture of biographical feature and historical documentary.