Rainer Egger was born in 1960 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor and director, known for The Red Violin (1998), Woman in Gold (2015) and Die fünfte Jahreszeit (1982).
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.