Vienna Blood

The cast and crew discuss the background and inspiration behind Vienna Blood.

A student of Sigmund Freud and an Austrian detective team up to solve some of the most mysterious and deadly cases in early 1900s Vienna.

Vienna Blood Producer Oliver Auspitz, Luise Von Finckh (Clara), Jüergen Maurer (Oskar) and Matthew Beard (Max) discuss the impact of language in barriers in acting.

Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt learns that Dr. Max Liebermann will be observing his case involving a woman’s murder. Max explains that he hopes to learn more about the psychopathy of the criminal mind during his observations.

While visiting Oskar, Max discusses Sigmund Freud’s theory and how it can be used to analyze a person through their behaviors and mannerisms to reveal what goes on inside the human brain. Stumped by his case, the inspector asks Max to use his skills with psychology to help him solve it.

While meeting to discuss the details of their case, Max questions how the inspector knows so much about the cemetery they had visited in search for clues. Oskar reluctantly reveals the death of his daughter.

Max employs his psychoanalytic training to probe murder suspects’ minds. Eventually, a thread emerges that takes Max and Oskar throughout Vienna. Solving the supernatural conundrum will threaten Oskar’s career and ultimately Max’s life.

Max uses hypnosis in an attempt to cure Amelia's hysteria and learn more about the man who attacked her. During their time together, his interest in her grows.

Professor Gruner expresses his discontent with Max after hearing that he’s been working with the police. He believes Max has turned his back on the medical world and threatens to end his career with the hospital.

On an outing together, Clara asks to be more involved in Max’s life. She hopes that they’ll be able to better strength their communication with one another when they’re married, but their day together is interrupted by a surprise visitor.

Oskar asks Max to help investigate a grotesque series of murders in Vienna’s slums, where the victims are seemingly chosen at random. The killer’s gruesome calling cards are vicious mutilation with a military blade and a penchant for arcane symbols.

Following an early departure from his engagement party to help with a murder case, Max’s sister lectures him about his work. She advises him to put forth more effort in his relationship with Clara, fearing that it’s hanging by a thread.