Vienna Blood makes the most of it's inevitable march of time, as we the audience watch in the early 1900's as the Jewish Leibermann family devolve to their horrific fate under Nazi Austria 35 years in the future. The Austrians were particularly dedicated to their implementation of the Final Solution, early in the program before even the death camps, they simply walled them off and left them to slowly starve to death en masse, saving the bother of even expending a bullet. Living in one of the world's most beautiful cities, known for its intelligent, cafe culture, Max Leibermann the practicing psychiatrist is an early adopter of the avant garde, from Gustav Klimt to Freud. The Liebermann's live well, navigating through the dark, more and more frequent but unrelenting eruptions of anti-semitism as if dealing with a schoolyard bully. Max is handsome, elegant, radically kind, and brilliant; his family and community soft and welcoming. His collaboration with a local detective who is living on despite the worst kind of family tragedy make them together a kind of magnet as well as unusually able investigative team for this growing darkness. Where others turn away, repelled, Max Liebermann says to the perpetrators "talk to me- I want to understand." How can they know that he and his family are moving rapidly towards a future no one will ever understand?
Review of Vienna Blood
