Casts & Crew
Tobias Moretti
Erzherzog Johann
Anna Maria Mühe
Anna Plochl
Peter Simonischek
Vater
Gertraud Jesserer
Freifrau von Palffy-Batany
Aglaia Szyszkowitz
Dorothea von Lieven
Julia Stemberger
Kaiserin Caroline Auguste
Hubert von Goisern
Paul Adler
Max von Thun
Johann Zahlbruckner
Also Directed by Julian Pölsler
KILLING STELLA is an ice-cold examination of a failed marriage and the self-reproach of a wife and mother. It is a prequel to THE WALL in both literary and cinematic terms.
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.
The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.
