Franz Novotny

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.

Ulrich believes that affairs can't harm a truly good marriage. That's why he's set his sights on the attractive Jutta. Jutta believes that his life so far can't be all there is to it. That's why she's set her sights on Ulrich. Sigi believes that his marriage to Jutta could be in jeopardy because of this. Therese believes Ulrich is intelligent enough not to completely succumb to his sexual urges. But she's wrong.

Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes.

8 x 45 is an Austrian television series.