The Greatest Debt - The World

The greatest debt is set in 1888 in Vienna, during the Belle Époque in continental Europe. A golden age in which Fin-de-siècle Vienna flowered and a year in which the streets of Vienna were absolutely paved with culture. As one of the first truly multi-ethnic cities, Vienna became a place of uncommon cultural and intellectual productivity, radically departing from artistic tradition and unabashed in its exploration of themes such as sexuality. From the modernist movement in art and architecture to the Viennese Secessionist school in painting and the twelve-tone system in music and from psychoanalysis to intentionality and the Austrian school of economics, Vienna seemed to have it all. But it was also a period of serious social and political tensions. Tensions that gave voice to a most rabid anti-Semitism. And precisely the kind of tensions that provide the stage for an epic story.