The theater (one of the only two showing it in Vienna) was in Gasometer in Simmering, a place we only knew because of Frau Lonnes' stories about shenanigans in the old gas towers. I just looked this place up, and the region is based around the four HUGE former gas tanks that are now apartments. Eventually we figured out that the mall place that housed the theater also went under/was connected to the four towers. I looked up through a huge ceiling window and saw that we were under a ring of apartments! Here are some pictures I found on the internet:
two of the four gasometer buildings (picture from this guy's flickr page)
At the bottom is one of the windows I looked up from.
Another inside-out building. Grass growing inside, which is still like an outside? Only in Wien.
These four buildings have their own community, which is closely tied to the mostly underground mall/Kino/restaurant area. It's like a hidden little city center. Above ground, Gasometer looked pretty dreary and industrial and desolated. We got lost for a little while, so I experienced some of this.
Anyway, I was apprehensive about paying to see a movie entirely in German (no subtitles!) because it seemed exhausting to either ask what was going on or try really hard to understand the people. I could actually follow the movie, though, and only had to ask a few questions about specific words. When we got out, I did learn that I missed or misunderstood some relatively important plot points, but I could follow the gist of it. The whole thing took place in the Alps (albeit the Schweizer Alps, aber, es ist mir egal) so it was pretty hilarious/terrifying to know we were to be going there the next day.
Trailer for Sennentuntschi:
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