The Prater and RiesenradĪ change of tone follows, as Céline and Jesse next find themselves in the Prater entertainment complex, which lies a little north and east of central Vienna but the U1 subway takes you there in just a few minutes. It’s not a picturesque walk, though the wild verges teemed with bees, butterflies and other insects on our visit. When you get out at Alberner Hafen, look for the footpath and signs to the cemetery. Check the timetables at the bus stop on Krausegasse just outside the subway station as not every bus goes all the way to the final stop. To get there, take the U3 to Enkplatz, then the 76A or 76B bus to the last stop at Wien Alberner Hafen. American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. It took us 75 minutes to reach it from our Viennese home on Vienna’s (excellent) public transport network. This part of town consists largely of river, port facilities and industrial estates. Before Sunrise is a romantic drama from 1995, and one of the early works of director Richard Linklater.Its notable for being a romance film that contains next to no Love Tropes (or at least, very few straight examples of Love Tropes), letting the romance develop through philosophical and increasingly intimate conversation. The cemetery is so far out to the east of the city that you’re over halfway to the airport and almost in the neighbouring province of Lower Austria. At first it is indistinguishable from darkness, then gradually one will see a slight lightening in the east. In Before Sunrise, Celine and Jesse meet on a train and spend a night together in Vienna, where they get to know one another and experience the first flush. This one, however, is very much not central. The first is astronomical, which in my part of the world (34 degrees south) is from about 75 minutes to 50 minutes before sunrise. The last burial here was over 80 years ago.Īll the Before Sunrise locations have been relatively central so far. And so they were buried nearby in what became the Friedhof der Namenlosen or “Cemetery of the Nameless”. Before Sunrise is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. This 100-minute romantic tale has comedy, heart, and a romantic.

Sadly, this material included the bodies of various poor souls, many of whom could not be identified. Before Sunrise is a pure romantic masterpiece that must be seen by everyone to be believed. Before Sunrise tries to tell difficulties. With Ugur Erzengin, Emre Kentmenoglu, Grkan Korkmaz, Kadir Selcuk. In the 19th century, the dynamics of the Danube meant that river detritus and other materials tended to wash up at particular locations. Before Sunrise: Directed by Murat Eroglu.

We see Maria-Theresien-Platz again before our pair leave on a subway train headed out (in the film, at least) to the Friedhof der Namenlosen.

Then we’re back to Schottentor to catch a tram.

Before sunrise