The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the title "Mein Kampf". Hitler is rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Herzl's concern for the sad young man continues, and leads him to a new career with disastrous consequences for world history.

• Dor Film
• Schiwago Film
• Götz George
• Tom Schilling
• Anna Unterberger
• Wolf Bachofner
• Simon Schwarz
• Henning Peker
• Elisabeth Orth
• Paul Matic