In The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penality Kick, based on Peter Handke’s short story of the same name, Wim Wenders’ cinema is there. And, despite the director’s lack of experience behind the camera, the film presaged what would one day become the renowned director from Düsseldorf.
In the ensemble film Viennese Girls, director, painter and photographer Kurt Steinwendner – so fascinated by Italian Neorealism that he was inspired by it in every way – draws a fresco of a hardly recovering Vienna after World War II, in which what seems most difficult is to make ends meet, due to the job insecurity that sadly combines with the inhuman conditions of the workers.