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Director Ernst Schmidt Jr.

Writer Ernst Schmidt Jr. (Writer), Günther Janicek (Writer), Heimito von Doderer (Novel)

Original Title Die totale Familie

Release Date October 16, 1981

Runtime 86 min (1h 26m)

Country Austria

Language DE

Budget N/A

Box Office N/A

Studios Signal-Film Gerhard Kleindl

The Total Family (1981)

Name: The Total Family
Released: 1981-10-16
Rating: 4.5

Directed by Ernst Schmidt Jr.

• Written by Ernst Schmidt Jr. , Günther Janicek , Heimito von Doderer

⭐ 4.5 / 5 (1 votes) ⏱️ 86 min 🎬

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Synopsis

Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and he has drawn up a chart of marriages and adoptions which show that he is his own father, grandfather, father-in-law, and son-in-law. He aims at achieving the "total family" based on one man. He persuades his french relative, Pippin, to help him. But the latter lets him down and breaks up the family... Among those who belong to the (surrounding) world of the Baron are Dr. Döblinger, a writer, who has formed a band of muggers and Professor Horn, a psychiatrist, who quiets his patients by leading them on nose rings and beating them up... Family satire with numerous personal and literary allusions based on the novel of the Austrian writer, Heimito von Doderer.