Inès, Estelle und Garcin haben nur Vermutungen darüber, warum sie ausgerechnet an diesem Ort gelandet sind: ein Innenraum, der irgendwo jenseits des Lebens liegt, ohne Fenster, ohne Spiegel und ohne die Möglichkeit, das Licht zu löschen. Turmhoch eingemauert, nur ab und zu besucht von einem skurrilen Kellner. Selbst die Augenlider sind erlahmt – der Ort droht mit durchgängigem Wachsein. Ist diese ewige Monade die ultimative Hölle? Warum sind ausgerechnet diese drei Menschen, die sich nie begegnet sind, hier zusammengesteckt worden? Welche Schuld hat sie hergeführt? Halten sie das Folterbesteck für die anderen bereits in den Händen, ohne es zu wissen?

Jean-Paul Sartres Klassiker des Existenzialismus ist ein Stück über die Ungewissheit, über das Eingeschlossensein und die Isolation. Burgtheater-direktor Martin Kušej und sein Team erforschen die veränderte Wahrnehmung von Zeit, die sich in einer zur Ewigkeit gedehnten Gegenwart bleiern über die Menschen und Dinge legt. Mit Blick auf die Pandemiejahre und deren Folgen ein hochaktuelles Unterfangen.
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Inès, Estelle and Gacin can only guess how they ended up at this place in particular: a room somewhere beyond life, without windows or mirrors and without a way to turn off the lights. They are walled in inside a tower; only sometimes a bizarre waiter visits them. Even their eyelids have grown weak – this place threatens with never-ending insomnia. Is this endless monad the ultimate hell? How did these three human beings of all people, strangers to one another, end up at this place? What wrongdoing brought them here? Are they already holding the torture instruments for the others in their hands, without even realizing it?

Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist classic is about uncertainty, being locked up and isolation. Martin Kušej, the director of the Burgtheater in Vienna, and his team explore how the perception of time changes, when it descends on people and things as a depressing and eternal present. In light of the pandemic and its consequences, this is a hot topic.

Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Known as The Last Knight for his bravery and battle skills, the great European emperor Maximilian and his story is as spectacular as it is familiar: It is the story of a prince who must learn to be king. But above all, it is the struggle of a son who steps out of his father's shadow with the help of a most unexpected ally: Marie de Bourgogne.

Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.

The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.

Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.