Subtitle Georgetown | (2019)

Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019; released in the U.S. in May 2021

David Auburn, based on the New York Times Magazine article "The Worst Marriage in Georgetown" by Franklin Foer Primary Cast: Christoph Waltz as Ulrich Mott Vanessa Redgrave as Elsa Breht/Brecht Annette Bening as Amanda Breht/Brecht Corey Hawkins as Daniel Volker subtitle Georgetown (2019)

The story follows Ulrich Mott's meteoric rise through flattery and elaborate lies. He marries Elsa Brecht (Vanessa Redgrave), a wealthy, well-connected journalist several decades his senior, using her influence to rub shoulders with powerful political figures. Mott even masquerades as a Brigadier General in the Iraqi Special Forces to bolster his prestige. Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April

In the crime drama Georgetown (2019), Christoph Waltz makes his directorial debut while starring as Ulrich Mott, a charismatic and eccentric social climber who infiltrates the highest ranks of Washington, D.C., society. The film is a fictionalized account of the notorious 2011 murder of 91-year-old socialite Viola Herms Drath by her much younger husband, Albrecht Gero Muth. Mott even masquerades as a Brigadier General in

Ambition, social stratification, duplicity, and the vulnerabilities of high society Full cast & crew - Georgetown (2019) - IMDb

The narrative unfolds through a series of chaptered flashbacks triggered by a present-day murder investigation. When Elsa is found dead in their Georgetown home, her suspicious daughter Amanda (Annette Bening) works to expose Ulrich's deceptive facade as the police begin to uncover a web of lies far deeper than a simple quest for social status. Director: Christoph Waltz