Maternal bonds and macabre murders in a flamboyant historical Vienna

The British-Austrian series ‘Murder in Vienna’ is opulent costume drama and well-constructed crime fiction. But it is also a picture of a European age of struggle, where the old world is crumbling.

The main character in ‘Murder in Vienna’ is the young doctor Max Liebermann, who subscribes to the theories of his colleague Sigmund Freud, which is controversial in his circles and contemporaries. Photo: DR

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Source: politiken.dk