Hanus Polak Jr.

Birth : 1959-03-24, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Movies

Andrea Gets a Divorce
Assistant Director
Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.
Steirerschuld
First Assistant Director
In this case, Sascha Bergmann from LKA Graz and his colleague Anni Sulmtaler investigate the death of a young woman who is found by the novice Clemens at the foot of a staircase in the monastery library.
Das Weihnachtsschnitzel
First Assistant Director
Styrian Cross
Bewerungshelfer
The third case of the successful "Steirerkrimi-Reihe" takes Commissioner Sandra Mohrund and her boss Bergmann to the remote Muerz Valley, where they have to solve a strange death. During the investigation, the unequal duo uncovered the dark secrets of the Fürst family of entrepreneurs and their matriarch Pauline and learned that appearance and existence do not always match. With pointed dialogues and a dash of humor, "Steirerkreuz" offers exciting entertainment based on the novel of the same name by Claudia Rossbacher.
Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit
Bergtourist
Luis Trenker - South Tyrolean mountaineering legend, actor and director - traveled to the Venice Film Festival in the summer of 1948. He wants to offer Eva Braun's diaries to the American Hollywood agent Paul Kohner for filming. At the same time, the authenticity of these diaries is negotiated before the Munich district court. The director Leni Riefenstahl, ex-lover of Trenker, feels disgraced by the implication that she was Hitler's lover. The story is told in flashbacks of two opportunists who, possessed by the will for artistic success, instrumentalize themselves ...
Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit
Assistant Director
Luis Trenker - South Tyrolean mountaineering legend, actor and director - traveled to the Venice Film Festival in the summer of 1948. He wants to offer Eva Braun's diaries to the American Hollywood agent Paul Kohner for filming. At the same time, the authenticity of these diaries is negotiated before the Munich district court. The director Leni Riefenstahl, ex-lover of Trenker, feels disgraced by the implication that she was Hitler's lover. The story is told in flashbacks of two opportunists who, possessed by the will for artistic success, instrumentalize themselves ...
Life Eternal
Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.
Die Frau mit einem Schuh
Blond, half-long hair floats in a seepage pond. A well-to-do lady calls the police, and departmental inspector Franzi fishes out a scalp.
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Justitzwachebeamter
Michael
Assistant Director
Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Bauernopfer
Taxifahrer
The White Ribbon
Detective
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Downfall
Assistant Director
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Dead Flowers
Assistant Director
Alex (Thierry Van Werveke), a pest exterminator who lives with his grandmother, picks up a stranded woman (Kate Valk) who claims to be the American daughter of a spy.
Obituary for a Murderer
Assistant Director
Autumn 1990, a young Austrian goes to a party held by some of his friends and provokes a hideous bloodbath. As a reflection of daily reality and its crass representation of the horror of this extreme crime, Michael Haneke has composed an experimental collage of material gathered from one day of ORF (Austrian TV) broadcasting, using each part in proportion to the time allocated to it in the programme schedule.
The World Machine
Teleplay
After the passing of her husband, the commissioned painter Anneliese Psiko decides to travel across the country. In the Austrian province of Styria, she discovers a strange work of art entitled "Weltmaschine" (World Machine). From now on, it will change her life significantly.