Herbert Prasch

Vienna, 1947. Bockerer and his wife Binerl have survived the war, though his butcher's shop was destroyed by bombs. Karl Bockerer opens up a new establishment in the center of the city. Post-war Vienna is divided into four zones in which the Allies run things and ensure that law and order prevails. This is the story of two lovers: Gustl, just returned form a POW camp, and the Russian interpreter Elena. Bockerer becomes the patron of their love. Elena's father was executed by Stalin, and the only way she can escape a similar fate is to marry an Austrian. Bockerer "buys" a husband for Elena and, full of tricks as ever, he succeeds in pulling the wool over the Russian occupier's eyes.

1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment.

A portrait of the poet Jana Černá, daughter of Franz Kafka's lover Milena Jesenská. Behind the bright facade on contemporary Prague, with its travel agencies and McDonalds, there is a tunnel leading to the world behind the postcards. Here, Jana's friends, Prague freaks, poets and philosophers, tell of this exceptional, passionate woman. With the surreal humour of Prague and with a little nostalgia they recall Jana Černá's excesses, her inability to follow rules, and her magnificent lies...

Karl Prantl, the main character in the film, is one of the leading figures of Austrian art. As a sculptor - as one who shapes stones - he has produced an oeuvre of rare consistency and coherence, created out of an awareness of the fundamental concerns and utterances of man.

Sabotage acts are committed on the film theaters of a city for no apparent reason. Two secretaries of "Mega Film", which has been damaged by a sabotage act, decide to try to find the saboteurs in order to determine what their motives are.

El pequeño Jonathana crece sin una madre. Y su padre tiene muy poco tiempo para ella. Justo antes de Navidad, le enviará al niño Jesús una carta con el deseo de su corazón: una madre por Navidad. Jonathana consegue muchos regalos, pero la madre no , por supuesto. Cuando su padre se hace amigo de la señorita Cook, Jonathana se horroriza. Entre ella y la señorita Cook, viene constantemente a la fricción. Como Jonathana ya no sabía qué hacer, ella visita a la anciana que vive en la casita detrás de la misteriosa valla.

Fragmented stories about the big city, loneliness and the need to communicate.

Vienna in the eighties. An accidental meeting in a restaurant. She, Hannah, is Jewish and has a live-in lover, a young and successful architect. He, Friedrich, is a German and lives permanently in Vienna. Two worlds collide with another, begin to become entangled in each other. Friedrich too, has his problems. He is a "German", which fascinates and repels Hannah at the same time. She tries to get over her confusion by being ironic and flirtatious. Simultaneously, what she has tried to suppress breaks through in flashbacks...

An author searches for cues about the life of a girl confined in a community home before her suicide. While trying to put together a literary piece he increasingly becomes aware of the insignificance of his own creative work. He has no insight in any world but his own.

En 1560, poco después de la destrucción del imperio inca, una expedición española parte de las montañas de Perú rumbo a las selvas del Amazonas, en busca de la legendaria tierra de El Dorado. A través del diario del fraile Diego Gaspar de Carvajal iremos conociendo detalles y circunstancias de aquella peligrosa aventura...

Un grupo de enanos encarcelados empiezan una rebelión caótica contra la autoridad. Destruyen todo a su alrededor intentando captar la atención del instructor al cargo, quien tiene algunos de ellos retenidos. El personaje central, Hombre, es la representación de los siete pecados mortales, mientras los enanos luchan entre ellos para conseguir territorio y comida. Cada vez son más crueles. Es una reflexión sobre la humanidad como especie.

Un paracaidista alemán herido de nombre Stroszek, es enviado a Kos, una tranquila ciudad de Creta, junto a su mujer Nora, una enfermera griega y otros dos soldados con heridas menores. Quedan recluidos en un polvorín de una vieja fortaleza y hay muy poco que hacer. Becker se dedica a traducir y transcribir inscripciones, Meinhart se divierte poniendo trampas para cucarachas y Nora ayuda a Stroszek a hacer fuegos artificiales usando la pólvora de las granadas que hay en el polvorín. Lentamente y debido al calor y al tedio, Stroszek comienza a volverse loco y querrá arrastrar a sus compañeros a una misión descabellada. Basada en un relato escrito por Ludwig Achim Von Arnim (1818).

Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen".

Elisabeth, estudiante de fotografía, conoce a Rolf, estudiante de medicina. Tras enamorarse y casarse, tienen numerosos hijos, pero ello no evita la infelicidad de Rolf, frustrado por un vacío que no consigue llenar...