this film be great . a often hear and it be indeed very realistic and sometimes brutal and but unlike some other people i be clearly not of the opinion that it be depress and negativistic or dismantle austria a a proto fascist society . quite the contrary represent while there be indeed some very heavy scene in hundstage and some character be to be call very bad person and at the same time you watch love and beauty and humor in ulrich seidls film . and that exactly what distinguish hundstage for me from other film that try to show the life of the ordinary people in an intense and realistic way while their hustle and their wish and their dark side represent seidl clearly never try to prove and that the life of the working class people be trash . in my opinion and viewer who come to this conclusion seem to be very afraid of admit and that nearly nobody live be a clean and normal a we would like other people to believe . and that every live have it dark and often depressing side . the most beautiful scene represent the old viennese man and watch his old girl dance the oriental way and a he be call it . i think everybody who find this scene ugly lack a sense of beauty and should ask themselves what it be and that proto fascist represent the character in hundstage or viewer and who be turn off by the body of a 70 plus year old woman and dance with all her charm for her lover .