Director: Claus Homschak
Script: Reinhard P. Gruber
Cast: Hanno Pöschl, Bernd Jeschek, Franz Buchrieser
Camera: Laszlo Nemeth
Editor: Charlotte Müllner
Location Sound: Ekkehard Baumung, Karl Schlifelner
Production: ORF, epo-film Graz

Two ORF productions from the 1970s draft a self-critical image of Austria and show Hanno Pöschl at the start of his career as a young television actor: as a newly trained assistant to the works manager, in , his heart is set on not only the profitableness of the local steel firm, but also beautiful Anni. In Der Geburtstag, the second episode of the police satire Kottan ermittelt, as a boozing railway worker, Pöschl becomes involved in a murder case.