Xaver Schwarzenberger

Xaver Schwarzenberger

Nacimiento : 1946-04-21, Wien, Austria

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Xaver Schwarzenberger (born 21 April 1946) is an Austrian cinematographer and film director. He has worked on more than 100 films since 1970. His 1983 film Der stille Ozean was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement. Source: Article "Xaver Schwarzenberger" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Xaver Schwarzenberger

Películas

Dos burros en Cerdeña
Director
Jutta y Bruno ,esta pareja, quiere pasar unos días románticos en la Costa Esmeralda. Con el robo de su descapotable , este corto viaje, se está convirtiendo rápidamente en una prueba para sus nervios y su relación...
Stille
Director
El secreto de Clarissa
Director
Clarissa es una mujer europea que quiso rehacer su vida en África. Cuando muere, su hija descubre que viene de una familia de la alta sociedad. Ahora, su hija debe regresar al viejo continente y adaptarse a unos parientes que ni siquiera sabía que existían.
Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
Director
Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow human beings with virtuosity. With the help of a never-ending stream of money, she buys her way out of situations that would have landed others in prison long ago. Her enemies are just waiting for the pyramid to collapse and bury Adele - and countless small investors with her.
Sisi
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The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with the young Elisabeth. It's love at first sight but Franz Joseph's mother Sophie doesn't approve this love.
Detektiv wider Willen
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Der Bär ist los! Die Geschichte von Bruno
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Und ewig schweigen die Männer
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Love a Dream
Director
No doubt: the attractive Japanology student Anna and the aspiring architect Max are destined for each other. But her love is under no auspicious star. When Anna receives a one-year scholarship in Japan, she chooses her career and a strong bond. Max is deeply disappointed and tries to forget Anna. Five years later, the two meet again.
Copacabana
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Muttis Liebling
Director
Wolferl, a 38-year-old bank employee, still lives together with his overprotecting mother Maria. While his father Josef, who secretly plans to end his hypocritical marriage, and his sister Nannerl think Wolferl should become independent, mummy's boy seems to enjoy this lifestyle. When he gets to know beautician Eva and falls in love with her, his jealous mother tries everything, including a faked suicide attempt, to keep her son...
Feine Dame
Director
Regina Steinberg, 40, considers herself a sacrificing wife and mother. Everyone else thinks she is an egocentric. Her husband loves her anyway - until there is a scandal. When Regina, the wealthy dentist, suspected that her husband, Dr. Julius Stemberger, has a relationship, she puts her friend Nora on him. While Regina is on a spa with her mother, Julius seeks Nora's closeness, and Nora does not permanently fend off his advances. Eventually Regina finds out what is going on behind her back and Nora feels that Regina is not a "fine lady" when it comes to her interests.
Mein süßes Geheimnis
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Margarete Steiff
Director
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.
Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas
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My Beautiful Daughter
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Dinner for Two
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Zuckeroma
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The Seebergs are a happy family - until Melanie's mother moves in. The old lady's malice plunges the once sweet home into chaos and discord. When the "sugar granny" even puts her tolerant son-in-law to flight, Melanie resorts to extreme measures to get her perfect world back.
Annas Heimkehr
Director
In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the Nazis. One day, the family is discovered and only by chance can Anna save the family's only daughter, Franziska. Together they escape to Anna's native village where Anna tells everybody that Franziska is her daughter...
Eine Liebe in Afrika
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Ein Hund kam in die Küche
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Andreas Hofer
Director
Edelweiss
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Vera and Erich Dorfmeister benefited from National Socialism . Times may have changed , but their spirit has stayed the same. Daughter Isolde in particular suffered from this , which is why her marriage to jazz musician Paul Richter broke up . Now their daughter Anna is returning Accompanied by her Jewish boyfriend Sidney after a year abroad .
Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
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Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet Max again ...
O Palmenbaum
Director of Photography
Kati and Jonas have planned to get married secretly during their Christmas trip to Mauritius - but in the end, Kati's entire family gets wind of the plan and shows up at the airport to accompany them.
O Palmenbaum
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Kati and Jonas have planned to get married secretly during their Christmas trip to Mauritius - but in the end, Kati's entire family gets wind of the plan and shows up at the airport to accompany them.
Stella di mare – Hilfe, wir erben ein Schiff!
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Krambambuli
Director of Photography
The new forester Georg Walch wants to put the poachers out of business. Believing that the animal will return to him, the poacher Wolf Pachler leaves him his hunting dog Krambambuli. The feature film "Krambambuli" is based on the eponymous novella by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, the script was provided by Felix Mitterer. The main roles are played by Tobias Moretti, Gabriel Barylli and Christine Neubauer.
Krambambuli
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The new forester Georg Walch wants to put the poachers out of business. Believing that the animal will return to him, the poacher Wolf Pachler leaves him his hunting dog Krambambuli. The feature film "Krambambuli" is based on the eponymous novella by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, the script was provided by Felix Mitterer. The main roles are played by Tobias Moretti, Gabriel Barylli and Christine Neubauer.
Fever
Cinematography
The married couple Carl and Vera Sylvester live far beyond their means. She is a regular customer at the Dorotheum art auctions, he puts up with Lilli, his lover, and has become addicted to gambling . Carl wants to use the business ruin to make a new start with his wife . He noticesnot that Vera has long since planned an infamous campaign of extermination against him .
Fever
Director
The married couple Carl and Vera Sylvester live far beyond their means. She is a regular customer at the Dorotheum art auctions, he puts up with Lilli, his lover, and has become addicted to gambling . Carl wants to use the business ruin to make a new start with his wife . He noticesnot that Vera has long since planned an infamous campaign of extermination against him .
Das Siegel
Director of Photography
A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and Jesse desperately tries to prove his innocence. Suddenly his girlfriend is in mortal danger.
Das Siegel
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A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and Jesse desperately tries to prove his innocence. Suddenly his girlfriend is in mortal danger.
Single Bells
Director of Photography
Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...
Single Bells
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Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...
Die Nacht der Nächte
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Lamorte
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Bella Ciao
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Fesseln
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Tonino und Toinette
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Zum Glück gibt's meine Frau
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Lovers
Director
A woman discovers that her husband is having an affair. She demands a divorce, her husband does not agree to it. She decides to sleep with ten men, then her husband will surely divorce her.
Tafelspitz
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Tafelspitz
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Die skandalösen Frauen
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No sólo quiero que me queráis
Self
El título es una variación del título de una película que Fassbinder realizó en 1976, Sólo quiero que me queráis (Ich will doch nur, dass ihr mich liebt). Este es el primer intento tras la muerte del director de acercarse a la compleja personalidad de Fassbinder, profundizando en los aspectos más polémicos de su vida, como su abierta homosexualidad y su relación con las drogas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Schramm
Älterer Herr 1
Lothar Schramm es un taxista berlinés que vive enamorado de su vecina, una prostituta sadomasoquista, y vive atormentado contemplando la llegada de clientes al domicilio. Él es un vecino ejemplar, que hasta le prepara el café, le sirve de chofer y hasta cenan juntos... pero cuando está a solas da rienda suelta a sus perversiones esquizofrénicas y paranoicas.
Schtonk!
Director of Photography
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.
The Flying Dutchman
Director of Photography
Adaptation of 'The Flying Dutchman', recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.
Duett
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Ein anderer Liebhaber
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Absturz
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Der Rausschmeisser
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Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
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Ödipussi
Director of Photography
Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.
Gewitter im Mai
Director of Photography
Germany, around the turn of the century. When sailor Poldi returns to his Bavarian home village after many years at sea he falls for his childhood friend Dorle. But Dorle is already promised to the village blacksmith Domini. A bitter rivalry between the two ensues.
Gewitter im Mai
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Germany, around the turn of the century. When sailor Poldi returns to his Bavarian home village after many years at sea he falls for his childhood friend Dorle. But Dorle is already promised to the village blacksmith Domini. A bitter rivalry between the two ensues.
Otto – The New Movie
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Otto – The New Movie
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Franza
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Momo
Director of Photography
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Michael Ende (autor de "La historia interminable") que narra la historia de Momo, una niña que vivía en un viejo anfiteatro a las afueras de una gran ciudad. Momo tiene la maravillosa cualidad de saber escuchar a los demás, por ello tiene muchos amigos que la visitan. Entre ellos están Gigi Cicerone y Beppo Barrendero, que son sus mejores amigos. Todas las tardes, montones de niños se acercaban al anfiteatro para jugar, porque con Momo era imposible aburrirse. De vez en cuando, Gigi contaba cuentos e historias increíbles, que ni él mismo sabía como iban a acabar. Momo era muy especial; arreglaba disputas, inventaba juegos, reconciliaba a la gente, y todo ello sin hablar, sólo escuchando a los demás.
Mozart: Mitridate Re Di Ponto
Director of Photography
Soprano Yvonne Kenny turns in a spirited performance as Aspasia in this brilliant staging of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first notable opera -- penned when he was only 14 years old. The production, set in early Roman times, follows the inner circle of the empire's most formidable foe, King Mithridates of Pontus. Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the sterling cast, which includes tenor Gosta Winbergh and mezzo-soprano Ann Murray.
Otto - The Movie
Director of Photography
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.
Otto - The Movie
Director
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.
The Malady of Death
Director of Photography
In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. For most of the hour, as the concise narration of Marguerite Duras' novel on eroticism and aesthetics fills the aural gaps, actress Marie Colbin's form fills the visual gaps. But unless viewers consider the feminine eyeball or microscopic views of skin exotic and worth lingering over, the eroticism lies more in the imagination than on the screen. In fact, the female body lying on the bed, taken away from the spirit that animates it, is really just a corpse -- raising the question, exactly what is the "malady of death?"
Donauwalzer
Director of Photography
The hungarian revolution 1956. Judith, an Austrian and her Hungarian friend, Taddek, want to escape to Austria. A friend of theirs, a Viennese photographer, helps organize their escape. Taddek doesn't appear at the arranged meeting place, so Judith and the photographer leave without him. Years pass without a word from Taddek..
Donauwalzer
Writer
The hungarian revolution 1956. Judith, an Austrian and her Hungarian friend, Taddek, want to escape to Austria. A friend of theirs, a Viennese photographer, helps organize their escape. Taddek doesn't appear at the arranged meeting place, so Judith and the photographer leave without him. Years pass without a word from Taddek..
Donauwalzer
Director
The hungarian revolution 1956. Judith, an Austrian and her Hungarian friend, Taddek, want to escape to Austria. A friend of theirs, a Viennese photographer, helps organize their escape. Taddek doesn't appear at the arranged meeting place, so Judith and the photographer leave without him. Years pass without a word from Taddek..
El marginal
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El comisario Philippe Jordan, un policía de expeditivos métodos, se ha propuesto acabar con el capo de la droga Sauveur Meccacci; sin embargo, éste es un criminal inteligente que conseguirá apartarlo de Marsella, el punto clave del narcotráfico. Una vez en París, lejos de darse por vencido, Jordan trama la estrategia definitiva para salir vencedor de este duelo.
Der stille Ozean
Director of Photography
Cinematographer turned director (Xaver Schwarzenberger) has filmed a small, wintry story of epic human proportions. A young doctor (Hanno Poeschi) exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a death. Once at the village, winter sets in and against that harsh and poetic backdrop a rabies epidemic sweeps through the population. The doctor convinces people he is a biologist but then he treats someone bitten and gives his real profession away. As the epidemic raises questions of life and death, the doctor's mind is brought back to the death that caused his exile and he considers suicide for awhile. The same issues come up again when an enraged villager goes on a killing spree and in turn, is hunted by the citizens. Faced with the prevalence of death all around him, the doctor starts to gain some perspective on the personal experience that brought him here in the first place.
Der stille Ozean
Director
Cinematographer turned director (Xaver Schwarzenberger) has filmed a small, wintry story of epic human proportions. A young doctor (Hanno Poeschi) exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a death. Once at the village, winter sets in and against that harsh and poetic backdrop a rabies epidemic sweeps through the population. The doctor convinces people he is a biologist but then he treats someone bitten and gives his real profession away. As the epidemic raises questions of life and death, the doctor's mind is brought back to the death that caused his exile and he considers suicide for awhile. The same issues come up again when an enraged villager goes on a killing spree and in turn, is hunted by the citizens. Faced with the prevalence of death all around him, the doctor starts to gain some perspective on the personal experience that brought him here in the first place.
As de ases
Director of Photography
Joe Cavalier (Jean-Paul Belmondo) fue uno de los más hábiles y valientes pilotos de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Veinte años después, es el entrenador de un equipo de púgiles franceses que participarán en las Olimpíadas de Berlín de 1936. Aprovechando la competición, Cavalier decide ayudar a escapar a un grupo de judíos, pero la falta de sentido de la orientación hace que el grupo se extravíe en la montaña. (FILMAFFINITY)
Querelle (Un pacto con el diablo)
Director of Photography
Querelle es un marinero que ejerce un enorme poder de fascinación y de seducción sobre las personas que conoce; posee un atractivo y una personalidad irresistibles. Cuando desembarca en Brest empieza a frecuentar un extraño prostíbulo. Ahí descubre que su hermano Robert es el amante de la dueña, Lysiane. Las reglas del local consisten en una tirada de dados contra Nono, el marido de Lysiane. Si ganas, tienes sexo con Lysiane y si pierdes, con Nono. Querelle pierde a propósito...
Kamikaze 1989
Director of Photography
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
La ansiedad de Verónika Voss
Director of Photography
Una famosa actriz alemana en el ocaso de su carrera recurre al alcohol y a las drogas con la esperanza de recuperar la fama perdida. Ésta es la última parte de la trilogía de Fassbinder sobre el desmoronamiento de los sueños de la Alemania Occidental de la posguerra.
Lola
Director of Photography
Lola, una cantante de cabaret, seduce al señor von Bohm, un delegado de urbanismo. Al honrado funcionario se le plantea un grave conflicto moral cuando descubre que el cabaret es la tapadera de un burdel y las cantantes, prostitutas. Se inspira en 'El ángel azul' de Josef von Sternberg y forma parte de la trilogía de Fassbinder sobre la Alemania de la posguerra junto con 'El matrimonio de Maria Braun' y 'La ansiedad de Veronika Voss'.
Student Gerber
Director of Photography
Kurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe.
Lili Marleen
Director of Photography
Lili Marleen es la historia de una canción que, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, llegó a convertirse en un himno, primero del nazismo y después del bando aliado. En 1936, Norbert Schultze, un pianista de cabaret, le puso música a la letra que había escrito años atrás un soldado alemán. Tres años más tarde la grabó en disco una bella pero mediocre cantante, Lale Andersen, que consiguió un éxito y una popularidad tales que los servicios de propaganda del Tercer Reich decidieron hacer suya la canción.
Curd Jürgens - Der Filmstar, der vom Theater kam
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Fehlschuß
Director of Photography
Freistadt
Director of Photography
Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel
Director of Photography
The First Days
Director of Photography
In this end-of-the-life scenario, which is designed as an expressive silent film with subtitles, a group of adolescents and scattered loners move through a destroyed landscape. One of the leaders is poisoned by his girlfriend, who now takes his place and demonstrates her power to a newcomer. However, he in turn passes the test of courage, puts himself in the place of the head of the group and leads the ever-growing community into an uncertain future.