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The Happiness of Still Life Preview Clip

A poetic depiction of the cultural life of Vienna from 1815 to 1848, which focuses on the Biedermeier lifestyle, a middle-class way of life in a society which was still aristocratic. The film combines pictures of period paintings and furniture, music from Schubert, and extracts from private letters and diaries of contemporaries. This period of calm came between the Napoleonic Wars and the initial upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, when Austria was the dominant power of Europe. Biographical details about Biedermeier Style

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