Josef Streitberger
The true story of Franz Streitberger, the director’s great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Second World War, this introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after and takes to occupied France with him – and through this unique friendship, his own past as an outcast farmers son slowly catches up with him.
On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to die. Selma’s granddaughter, 11-year-old Luise, and her best friend Martin look on as fears of being the victim of the prophecy throw the village into a frenzy of confusion. But when the premonition comes true, it is young Luise’s world that is suddenly turned upside down. Ten years on from the event that changed her life, Luise lives a quiet life working in a bookstore, until the arrival of an unexpected guest enables her to rediscover how powerful and life-giving love can be.
Eugene Breitling
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Charles Mangel
La auténtica y sorprendente historia de Marcel Marceau, el mimo más conocido y admirado, quien fue un héroe secreto que salvó las vidas de muchos niños judíos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Director
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole hotel knows about it. Among the guests is an inspector - or at least he convincingly claims to be - who, together with his assistant who has travelled with him, undertakes extensive investigations. Then a second murder takes place. Although the inspector seems to be close to solving the case, the evidence is missing. Then, on snowshoes, the village policeman joins in, and immediately gets into trouble with the arrogant city dweller.
Jonas Horak
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole hotel knows about it. Among the guests is an inspector - or at least he convincingly claims to be - who, together with his assistant who has travelled with him, undertakes extensive investigations. Then a second murder takes place. Although the inspector seems to be close to solving the case, the evidence is missing. Then, on snowshoes, the village policeman joins in, and immediately gets into trouble with the arrogant city dweller.
Bürgermeister
La historia del austriaco Franz Jägerstätter, objetor de conciencia, que se negó a luchar para los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y acabó siendo ejecutado por ellos en 1943, para ser declarado mártir y beatificado por la Iglesia.
Writer
A grumpy old white man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog, and as the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, their day takes an unexpected turn.
Director
A grumpy old white man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog, and as the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, their day takes an unexpected turn.
Roman Silberstein
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.
Michael Unterguggenberger
Tyrol, 1932: The world economic crisis is at its peak, radical political movements emerge. In a small Austrian community, the engine driver Michael Unterguggenberger accepts the mayor's office against better knowledge. But how is he supposed to save Wörgl? The power of despair and the support of his wife Rosa form the breeding ground for a daring experiment: Unterguggenberger wants to print his own money without further ado - so-called work confirmation notes. For this he not only has to convince the community of his city, but above all to rebel against the mighty banking.
Josef Hofer
La zona se conoce como “la guarida del diablo”... solo que el monstruo que la habita no es otro que Mina, una adolescente que convierte en su víctima a cualquiera que se acerque. La llegada de Alex, un chico ciego que acarrea sus propios traumas, despertará en Mina un sentimiento que creía olvidado, el de la empatía. Como Déjame entrar, The Dark explora la tumultuosa época de la adolescencia a partir del terror.
Wirt
Ivo is a former pro footballer and jailbird with nothing to lose. He is a betting natural and his talent and background attract the interest of Dejan, the leader of a dangerous underworld family.
Simon Wiesenthal
El conocido como "El carnicero de Vilnius", Franz Murer, es un ex oficial austriaco de las SS que estableció, organizó y gobernó el gueto de Vilna. Diferentes supervivientes de la Shoah testifican, esperando hacer justicia y la evidencia es abrumadora, pero el deseo de cerrar este oscuro capítulo de la historia parece superar el deseo de justicia.
Dahlmann
Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years earlier sends his new life spiraling out of control.
Christian Lossa
Basada en la inspiradora historia real de Ernst Lossa, un valiente niño que dio a otros la ayuda que él necesitaba. Fog in August es la primera película que habla sobre el programa de eutanasia del régimen Nazi. Sur de Alemania, principios de la década de 1940. Ernst es un niño huérfano, brillante pero con problemas para adaptarse. Los hogares y centros correccionales donde ha vivido hasta ahora lo tachan de “ineducable”, hasta que es internado en una clínica por su naturaleza rebelde. Cuando Ernst descubre un oscuro secreto del lugar, comienza una valiente lucha contra un sistema inhumano.
Curt Bräuer
Tres días extremadamente dramáticos vividos en Noruega en Abril de 1940. Tras la llegada del ejército alemán a Oslo, el rey noruego Haakon VII recibe un ultimátum impensable por parte de los alemanes: rendirse o morir. Ante esta situación, el rey deberá tomar una decisión que cambiará para siempre la historia de su país.
Joseph Goebbels
Salzburgo, Alemania, 2000. La anciana actriz checa Lída Baarová relata a una periodista la tumultuosa historia de su ascenso a la fama en el Berlín de los años treinta y su apasionada relación con el siniestro Joseph Goebbels, ministro de Propaganda del Tercer Reich.
Twin
Un crítico sin éxito, pero lleno de vanidad, se propone escribir una biografía sobre un anciano pintor ciego que, tras causar furor en el mundo artístico, ha quedado relegado al olvido. El crítico consigue alterar la rutinaria vida del anciano proponiéndole un viaje por Europa para encontrar a su primer amor. Lo que no sabe es que el viejo, en realidad, lo está usando para poder librarse de la férrea custodia de su sobreprotectora hija.
Andersen
Gerda y Kay son dos buenos amigos que disfrutan mucho jugando juntos. Hasta que una noche, Kay se transforma en la reina de las nieves y acaba desapareciendo. Gerda lo buscará pero no le será fácil...
Screenplay
Gabi, a supermarket employee, leads an ordinary life between family and job, between single-family home and local food store. One day when Gabi comes home from work, something happens that changes her life in a single moment. It isn’t visible, it makes no sound, and yet it strikes her like a bolt from the sky – an encounter with God.
Director
Gabi, a supermarket employee, leads an ordinary life between family and job, between single-family home and local food store. One day when Gabi comes home from work, something happens that changes her life in a single moment. It isn’t visible, it makes no sound, and yet it strikes her like a bolt from the sky – an encounter with God.
Wolf
El Sr. Gustave H., un legendario conserje de un famoso hotel europeo de entreguerras, entabla amistad con Zero Moustafa, un joven empleado al que convierte en su protegido. La historia trata sobre el robo y la recuperación de una pintura renacentista de valor incalculable y sobre la batalla que enfrenta a los miembros de una familia por una inmensa fortuna. Como telón de fondo, los levantamientos que transformaron Europa durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.
Dominik Hofer
Lehrer Büttner
Alemania a comienzos del siglo XIX. La película sigue a los brillantes y excéntricos científicos Alexander von Humboldt (Albrecht Schuch) y Carl Friedrich Gauss (Florian David Fitz) a lo largo de su periplo vital.
Vladan
When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally come from Kiev. He rather falls in love with the spoiled pop-starlet Maria, for whom he is working. Both, however, are depending on Maria's rich patron Jora. The same night in Belgrade Vladan's son Zoran meets Jelena. But she intends to leave her homeland the next day, forever. Three cities. Three Love-Stories. One night in Europe.
Ferdinand Aus der Fünten
Film basado en la historia del judío alemán Walter Süskind, quien como gestor de las deportaciones de Ámsterdam parecía ser un colaboracionista con los nazis, pero que a escondidas salvó docenas de adultos y entre 800 y 1.000 niños.
Jimmy
Screenplay
Roman Kogler tiene la oportunidad de ser liberado con antelación de su centro de detención juvenil. Pero todo está en su contra: es poco comunicativo, solitario, sin familia y no parece adecuado para resocializarse. Lo único que le ayuda es su trabajo en una funeraria.
Director
Roman Kogler tiene la oportunidad de ser liberado con antelación de su centro de detención juvenil. Pero todo está en su contra: es poco comunicativo, solitario, sin familia y no parece adecuado para resocializarse. Lo único que le ayuda es su trabajo en una funeraria.
Dr. Farge
El Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) tiene un accidente de coche en Berlín. Al despertar descubre que, de repente, su mujer (January Jones) no le reconoce y que otro hombre (Aidan Quinn) ha adquirido su identidad. Las autoridades le ignoran porque no le creen y unos asesinos le persiguen. Martin se encuentra solo y cansado y se ve obligado a huir. Sin nadie a quien acudir, en un país desconocido, Martin le pide ayuda a una reticente desconocida (Diana Kruger) al sumergirse en un terrible misterio que le hará dudar de su cordura y de su identidad. ¿Hasta dónde estará dispuesto a llegar para descubrir la verdad?.
Sigmund Freud
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Mikael Rossberg
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.
Coligny
Coproducción europea que gira en torno a la figura de Enrique IV de Francia y III de Navarra (1503-1555). A Enrique se le conocería como 'el rey bueno' de Francia, un joven príncipe navarro, llamado a ser un día Rey de Francia, según la profecía de Nostradamus. Tras largos años de guerras religiosas e intrigas de salón, Enrique llegará al trono. Su igualitarismo religioso, su pasión por la vida y las mujeres, su preferencia por los más desvalidos, convertirán a Enrique IV en un monarca excepcional. Los telespectadores se sorprenderán con la fascinante aventura de este rey que se enfrentó a las grandes casas reales europeas, que luchó por su vida más de una vez, que vivió incontables amores y que tuvo, por lo menos, 18 hijos.
Karl Maria Herrligkoffer
Reinhold y Günther Messner decidieron escalar la cara Rupal de la montaña Nanga Parbat, en Pakistán, en los años 70. En el camino de vuelta Günther sufre un accidente y muere, su hermano Reinhold es acusado de asesinarlo.
Fremdenpolizist
Bank Director
Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old and that bank has just thrown your parents out of a brand new apartment, because your father has lost his job. Five year old Robby is no Zorro, but he'd like to be. His seven year old sister Louise thinks he's too childish, but can't resist the game of robbing a bank. Together they can pull off just about anything. Getting away with it is the hard part.
Rolf (segment "Schieflage")
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Alfred
Kika es una niña normal y corriente que un día encuentra un libro de magia y empieza a vivir sorprendentes aventuras en compañía de un pequeño dragón llamado Héctor. Todo empieza cuando la mayor de las brujas se esta haciendo vieja, necesita encontrar una joven sucesora, para ello envía a su pequeño y barrigón dragón a buscarla. Pronto Héctor el Dragón llega a casa de la pequeña Kika, una niña que tal vez sea elegida como la nueva Superbruja, aquella que además tiene el deber de cuidar el Gran Libro de Hechizos. Un relato de fantasía y aventura donde la magia blanca deberá triunfar sobre la magia negra que envuelve a un terrible villano. ¿Se convertirá Kika en la siguiente Superbruja?
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
Franz Fuchs
Sorowitsch
Berlín, 1936. Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), el rey de los falsificadores de moneda, es un judío sin escrúpulos que cree que "la manera más rápida de ganar dinero es fabricar dinero". Nada le importa lo que está sucediendo a su alrededor, ni siquiera la situación de los judíos. Sin embargo, cuando estalla la guerra, es arrestado y llevado a un campo de concentración nazi, donde se ve obligado a trabajar con otros falsificadores. Su misión: fabricar libras esterlinas y dólares americanos. A cambio, sus condiciones de vida son mejores que las de los demás prisioneros. Sin embargo, esta situación les plantea a algunos un dilema moral: cooperar con sus verdugos equivale prolongar la guerra y facilitar la victoria de la Alemania nazi.
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
Bombelles
Imperio Austro-húngaro, siglo XIX. Historia de amor imposible entre Rodolfo de Habsburgo (hijo de Francisco José y Sissi) y la joven Marie Veetzera, que tiene como telón de fondo la crisis del Imperio de los Habsburgo a causa de las tendencias separatistas de las diversas nacionalidades que lo integraban. Las ideas liberales y modernas de Rodolfo, el heredero del trono, contrastaban con el absolutismo de la Corte austríaca.
Huber Schlömmer
Jussuf
Hubert Schlömmer
Dr. Mannhart
Jürgen Platzer
Georges Haider
Anton Seeberg
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.
Gregor Brunner
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...
Chwostik
Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable help and a friend in the board of directors and authorized signatory Josef Chwostik. But gradually the authorized signatory is drawn into the private life of father and son. An orderly world - or so it seems. You make a career, maintain business relationships, win or lose a lover - and don't want to see the cracks and voids in the foundation of society.
Erzherzog Karl
Karl Kunert
Postal worker Jenny finds and reads the letters that the little girl Lilly sent to her dead mother. Jenny decided to help Lilly and gets involved with her father Matthias.
Hauptsturmführer
Alemania /// Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los británicos quieren recuperar un artefacto muy poderoso que permite el envío de mensajes codificados. Para lograr su objetivo, deciden enviar a cuatro de sus mejores hombres para infiltrarse en la fábrica donde se encuentra. El problema aparece cuando se percatan de que la fábrica está ocupada en su totalidad por mujeres. Su única solución, enviarles disfrazados de mujer, no convence a los cuatro amigos que tendrán que aprender de forma acelerada a comportarse como unas verdaderas señoritas.
Rudi Riebl
Jäger
Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations.
Zwirn
Willi
Stefan Strohmayer
It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, it emerges that the Turkish family, including the baby, has been deported. The despairing Austrian couple begins a confusing odyssey through Turkey in order to track down the unsuspecting family to their native village. But they are not at all convinced that the babies have been mixed up. It is decided that the only way to know for sure is to have a blood test done. It is decided that the blood work is done in Vienna due to the better medical resources, but that will be far from simple. It will involve an illegal smuggling of the Turks across the Austrian border.
Herr Mack
Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very wealthy banker, her father does a little research on his future son-in-law and finds out the truth about Bob. He forces Bob to marry his daughter and behave like the perfect husband, or else... Unfortunately, Bob meets "The One" just a few days before the wedding and had also told her what she wanted to hear, all of this unbeknownst to his future wife. Then right as he's trying to extricate himself from those dilemmas, two very protective Turkish brothers of one of his past affairs are after him to take revenge for taking her virginity!
Carlo Carnetti
A crime comedy directed by Otto W. Retzer.
Rudnik
Prof. Nadler
Herr Ivo
Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village.
Jäger
Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated house park in the south of Vienna, where they regularly go on pilgrimage with their son Philipp. Just as regularly, they have to recognize the bitter truth that they cannot actually afford the dream house they have visited.
Nachtkellner
Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally, he finds her place and stays with friends of hers while she is abroad. Now Lukas falls in love with Alice, but does not want to admit it. And while his relationship with Alice is in doubt, Nathalie comes back home. Trouble had been breeding all along.
Konrad
Dr.Zim
When six year old Olivia is diagnosed with the Wilms tumor in her kidney, the doctors suggest an immediate operation and chemotherapy. Healing chances would be 95%, but when her parents learn how other children suffer from the procedure, they're terrified and refuse to expose their daughter to such a torture. Instead they consult faith healer Hamer, who claims to be able to heal cancer without drugs. When the youth welfare office attempts to force them to have Olivia medicated properly, the family flees from Germany. So Olivia's condition worsens, and a great press campaign is started to change the parent's mind...
Schurl
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.
Weghofer
Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a young photographer shows up and a deadly race between the two commences.
Schaffner
48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.
Taxifahrer
The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
Kirchingerwirt
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
"The title says everything."
Concierge
Two men and a young woman who recently met spend a night together at a secluded mountain inn. It soon turns out that one of the two men could be a dangerous psychopath who is wanted by the police. The woman is torn between her emotions and what she should actually believe. A long night takes its course, at the end of which there will be no winner.
Zeno
A documentary look behind the scenes at dubbing voices and sound effects. A scene is filmed and then copied three times with different sound effects and dialogues, thereby telling thre different stories.
Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.
Viktor Knigge
Stage Director
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare.
