Liebe in Hollywood

Documentary film.

He himself never expected it: Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali, an outsider and enfant terrible of the boxing world, fought against the odds to be world champion. The portrait of an exceptionally talented fighter – just before the peak of his career.

Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a chronicler of his time and with this film he engages in some bold and self-ironic navel gazing.

Wayne Lo is intellectually gifted, did well at school and plays the violin superbly. At Simon's Rock College in Massachusetts he shot dead two men unprovoked, injured many others and is now serving a life sentence. Troller draws a bold portrait that centres around one question: why?