Prater Violet Av Christopher Isherwood

<p>''A deliberate historical parable. <i>Prater Violet</i> resembles episodes in <i>Goodbye to Berlin</i> and keeps up the same high level of excellence'' - Edmund Wilson<br><br>An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood''s job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called <i>Prater Violet</i>. In the real Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught and his prophecy of the coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project.</p>