Ellen Umlauf

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his life's failures. Not following much of a plot, the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann (Klaus Maria Brandauer) imagining his last big gala event while rendered unconscious as a result of a car accident in his Ferrari. He is a success in Vienna but not in fashionable Paris, so he wishes to impress French elder stateswoman Yvonne Becker (Juliette Greco).

A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit.

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.

The young policeman Joachim Krippo likes to occasionally share his bed with a nice married couple. When he is supposed to be guarding the criminal Engel Potraske during a court appearance, the dangerous Engel manages a spectacular escape, but departs minus a toe! Krippo is subsequently suspended from his duties and put with other police officers under the care of an elderly police psychologist. Krippo's professional set-backs are followed by private ones: his grandad - who was actually being well looked-after in an old people's home - is dropped off at his place because the payments due have not been made. He tries to get his grandad out of the flat by pairing him off with the police psychologist. But, in the critical moment, Krippo lunges for the bait himself. At least, this means that he will be discharged from the psychograph tests as being fit for service again...

A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island.

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.

Basada en hechos reales, narra la historia de una bailarina de 19 años (Gertz) cuyo colapso en el escenario lleva a descubrir que tiene cáncer. Trasladada a una clínica especializada, ella comparte habitación con una chica de clase trabajadora que está directamente en conflicto con la chica más refinada. Las dos intentan afrontar sus posibles muertes, así una extraña unión se forma entre ellas.

Con la atmósfera de la parte occidental de Berlín occidental como telón de fondo, la historia sigue a Max, un joven médico excéntrico que disfruta del glamour y de las mujeres hermosas. Aunque ya tiene una hermosa novia, comienza una relación con varias otras chicas, incluida la elegante seductora de clase alta Coco, que quiere controlarlo, y la nerviosa Marie, que se parece mucho a él.

Carol es una mujer joven insatisfecha y exigente con la vida. Para probarse a sí misma se hace pasar por terrorista. Es internada y mantenida en observación en una residencia, a pesar de no estar enferma. El suicidio de un paciente la hará enfrentarse a la realidad y tratar de volver a la normalidad.

Three young friends will spend a season in Alicante (Spain). There life is easy drinks, girls and parties. On one of their usual night trips, they find three women, old friends of more relaxed times.

Un descendiente del famoso vampiro obtiene trabajo como fotógrafo de modelos, situación que da lugar a las distintas alternativas de esta mezcla de comedia erótica y terror proveniente del cine europeo. (FILMAFFINITY)

A German short film

A film by Robert van Ackeren.

Alemania, años 20; un paquete de tabaco cuesta 40 billones de marcos. En Berlín Abel, un trapecista judio norteamericano y alcohólico encuentra el cadáver de su hermano en la habitación que ambos comparten. Se ha suicidado, y Abel se siente responsable de su cuñada, Manuela, que trabaja en un cabaret. Entre ambos surge una relación de mutua dependencia, en un mundo golpeado por la crisis, la violencia y la muerte.

Acechado por los recuerdos de una infancia traumática que le dejó sordo y sin habla, "mosquito" vive solo, rodeado de muñecas, y visita regularmente a prostitutas... sus crisis maníaco-depresivas acaban convirtiéndole en un necrófilo...

Cuatro relatos, «Cuba», «Drame du rail», «Cœur brisé» y «La trahison», enmarcados por un prólogo y un epílogo, exaltan la sensualidad de los cuerpos y la belleza de los rostros

Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one hand, it is a companion piece to Willow Springs, featuring two Schroeter regulars as characters far from home and in extremis; on the other hand, it is a film essay about Mexico and as such a harbinger of Schroeter’s nonfiction work to come. While he clearly shares his characters’ fascination with Mexico, the filmmaker also savages touristic exoticism – the otherworldly appearances of his protagonists and their rapturous reactions to new surroundings contrast sharply with the sober perceptions of Mexican history and economics featured in the documentary segments and in the prosaic presence of a non-professional cast of locals. - Harvard Film Archive

Hebrew leader Lot (Stewart Granger) leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera (Anouk Aimée). When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb

The students at a school of hotel management repurpose the institute into a hotel with a show stage, double-cross the principal, the groundskeeper, and a grumpy millionaire, and cause so much mischief and confusion that, in the end, there is only one thing left to do: laughing to the bitter end!

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

No todas las jóvenes huyen de sus hogares por la misma razón. Unas van en busca de la aventura, otras para vivir la vida, otras tienen problemas familiares, incompresión, ...

Berlín, años 30, en plena República de Weimar y antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A pesar de la crisis del momento, los berlineses prefieren vivir la magia que les ofrece cada noche un cabaret cuya estrella es Sally, una bailarina y cantante que se enamorará de dos hombres muy diferentes entre sí.

A comedy directed by Kurt Nachmann.

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of "the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.“

A man plans to kill his wealthy wife for her money and so he can be with his beautiful young mistress. However, things don't turn out exactly as he had planned.

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...

A comedy directed by Günter Hendel.

A sleazy comedy directed by Ákos Ráthonyi.

In this comedy, set in an Austrian mountain village, the town leaders conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical "fountain of love" that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents to check out the veracity of the potentially scandalous water. After the village mayor declares a 3-day ban on sexual activity, he then plugs up the fountain. When the agents come, they find nothing. One of the agents wants to have his boss come and check it out personally, but changes his mind after he drinks some of the water. It really is an aphrodisiac! Soon tourists are arriving by the hundreds to sample the mysterious water. Unfortunately, the minister finds out and claims the water for the state.

Las fervientes oraciones de un monje producen un verdadero milagro en una ciudad industrial de Alemania del Oeste, que, sin embargo, no es entendido por la gente más que como una acción con afán lucrativo.

The actors Heinz Doll, Hans Stiegler and Werner Mack have failed to look after the end of the last season in time for a new commitment and are now unemployed. Since they are just right that the Salzburg mountain hotel "Zum Blaue Enzian" staff looking for.

A mix between Italian neo-realism, German expressionism and Austrian exploitation.