Plot

Terese as a young woman breaks out the narrow patriarchal mold of a conservative Viennese family being shaped by the mother's enigmatic sorrow and the father's intimidating authority. She joins a commune with free sexuality and common property founded by Otto Muehl in the early 70s. This initially seems to be a very liberating life and love experiment, with highly developed art praxis in different medias and a prosperous economy. It yet increasingly glides into failure when Otto Muehl starts to act more and more authoritarian and to abuse his almost unlimited power in the group. Terese finds herself again in a difficult situation that calls for a clear decision.

"Disobedience" - tells of the loss of illusions and utopias. Growing up in a Viennese family, marked by the father's vivacious dominance and public fame as editor-in-chief of the 'press', as well as by the mother's puzzling grief for husband and children, Terese seeks another life and joins the commune of action artist Otto Mühl. However, the initially seemingly free love and life experiment fails increasingly.—Ulf Kjell Gür