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Sie ist jung, verwitwet, und die Männer in der Kleinstadt machen ihr den Hof. Vergebens, eine neue Verbindung kommt Berta Garlan nicht in den Sinn. Doch als sie eines Tages von ihrer alten Jugendliebe aus Wien hört, ist es um Berta geschehen. Wild entschlossen und voller Sehnsüchte macht sie sich auf in die Metropole... Mit virtuoser Regie hat Max Ophüls Dialoge, atmosphärische Klänge und Musik kunstvoll zu einem akustischen Erlebnis verwoben.

To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children, he was a loyal family member, their father’s adopted “nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him...and how, while the don’s children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.

Frau Berta Garlan ist ein Roman des österreichischen Schriftstellers Arthur Schnitzler, die 1900 entstand und 1901 in der Literaturzeitschrift Neue Deutsche Rundschau in Berlin erschien. Wenige Wochen später brachte der Verlag S. Fischer, Herausgeber der Zeitschrift, den Text als Buch heraus. Die Protagonistin Bertha Garlan, eine in einer Kleinstadt lebende Witwe, trifft in Wien ihre Jugendliebe, den gefeierten Violinvirtuosen Emil Lindbach, wieder. Für einen kurzen Moment hofft sie, der provinziellen Enge ihres Daseins entkommen zu können.

1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it’s not deliverance; it’s a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family - and her innocence - Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes on her back and an infant daughter, she’s herded among thousands, driven from the only home she’s ever known.

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him...and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.

When an important Mafia boss is assassinated, no one knows anything. Omerta, the Mafia code of silence, is at work. No information is to be found, not from corrupt banks, rival gangs, or even from the courts. However, the nephew of the dead man and the head of the FBI are determined to track down the murderers. So determined, they join forces to begin their own investigation. After all, in the Mafia world, everyone has a price.