خلاصه داستان : پس از زندانی شدن در طول جنگ بزرگ، یک سرباز جوان به وین باز می گردد تا متوجه شود که همه چیز تغییر کرده است.

Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young KuK officer, discovers how much the defeat has transformed Vienna and his people. He is stunned by the new order of things. Having lost his entire fortune and his wife, who is having a sapphic relationship with a Hungarian artist, he tries to regain his place in a world that appears devastated.

خلاصه داستان : در آلمان اوایل دهه 1930، یک بازیگر پرشور صحنه با یک معضل روبرو می شود: موضع غیرسیاسی خود را کنار بگذارد و از دکترین رایش پیروی کند، یا با فراموشی روبرو شود. اما، معامله های فاوستی هرگز به خوبی ختم نمی شود. بهای موفقیت چیست؟...

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.