Ursula Strauss

Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help: Gabi and Eberhard. When Franz discovers Hank Haberer's "10 rules for a real man" for himself one day, turbulence is inevitable and the friendship of the three gets into trouble.

Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so discovers his potential as a poetic rebel. His very first play was banned and soon afterwards he lost his place at the film school. When the tanks of the Soviet Union roll through the Czech capital Prague in 1968, Brasch and his girlfriend Sanda and other students try to call for protest in the streets of Berlin - and fail. His own father betrays him to the Stasi and allows Thomas to go to prison. After being paroled, he continues to try his hand at poet writing about love, revolt and death. In the GDR, however, you don't want to have anything to do with someone like him.

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies between them. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile story about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.

Andrea Bredow makes friends quickly with her new colleague at the health department. Judith Lorenz seems nice and competent. And she does not like anything about office macho Volker Lehmann. But then the unbelievable happens: Judith is brutally raped by Volker Lehmann during her working hours in a storeroom. So she tells Andrea and later the police. Andrea encourages her friend to tell the truth. But Judith's behavior seems increasingly puzzling.

Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city - happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes totally, when her 15 years old son shoots ten of his classmates and kills himself afterwards. From that day nothing is how it used to be. The whole family has to struggle with the anger and sorrow of the people around them. They need to deal with the assassination and the circumstances, how it could come to the disaster out of nowhere.

HANNA loves YANN and the lettres filmees that he sends her, short, poetic films recorded with an iPhone. Yann loves Hanna, but mistrusts her. He leaves her, but does not leave her alone. ...

Los Trummer tienen un hijo adoptado con rasgos autistas. Cuando entablan relación con unos nuevos vecinos, el niño se vuelve más sociable y extrovertido. Pero un suceso acaba con esa buena amistad.

Viena 1945. Christine una niña acostumbrada a la guerra se tiene que hospedar junto a su familia en una acomodada casa a las afueras de Viena. Ahora tienen un techo donde cobijarse pero nada más. La gente del pueblo espera la llegada de los rusos. Todos tienen miedo, Chirstine no.

A serious car accident completely robs Maria of her memory. Husband Bruno angrily searches for the fugitive driver involved in the accident and discovers that Maria had secrets from him. When Maria wakes up from the coma, Bruno is overjoyed at first. The children Lucy and Joey also believe that family life will be as it was before. Maria, however, is indifferent to her husband and children. A strange man reveals himself to her as a lover. What is being played here?

Sophie, está feliz con su soltería pero le gustaría formar su propia familia. Es entonces cuando conoce a Fritz, un recién divorciado y padre de un niño de 12 años con pocas ganas de comprometerse.

Varios jóvenes bio-ingenieros crean un red neural sin cables, descubriendo que pueden usar la física cuántica para transferirse habilidades entre los cerebros humanos. Creyendo que será el primer paso hacía una nueva libertad intelectual, deciden distribuir libremente la tecnología. Pero alguien intentará usarla para controlar a las masas.

According to an African fairy tale, every child receives a song from their parents that they carry with them throughout their lives. Richard, an orphaned Tanzanian immigrant, has never had his own song. How he got one before his unexpected death and the significant, though unintended, roles played by the dark-tourism entrepreneur Drakuhl, the gray-haired hair model Barney and the heavy-drinking music teacher Kiesel won't be revealed here. Merely that the song Dead Man Play becomes an international hit.

Como la hija ilegítima de una costurera, la joven Catherine Simon, no tiene perspectivas prometedoras de futuro. Pero en la mujer decidida duermen talentos insospechados. A los 17 años, debutó con un éxito inesperado como actriz en el Berlin Lessing Theatre. El mundo está a sus pies y los sueños comienzan a cumplirse cuando conoce al destacado artista Max Kruse en la fiesta de estreno. Los dos se convirtieron en pareja, pero el escultor recién divorciado no está listo para casarse nuevamente, ni siquiera cuando Käthe está esperando un hijo suyo. Aunque, sin un certificado de matrimonio, pasaron dos felices años juntos, pero su cohabitación ilegítima no se corresponde con la moral de la bella sociedad de Berlín. Entonces el destino golpea de nuevo a su puerta cuando ella comienza a hacer muñecas de trapo para sus hijas.

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.

Kristin turns 40. She is an attractive single woman who works in her profession, has a relationship with her boss and is somehow alone. Her best friend since childhood, Lenny, gives her a surprise suitcase for her birthday. For years, unclaimed suitcases are auctioned off at the airport without knowing the contents. Lenny bought one of these suitcases for Kristin. Of course Kristin is curious and finds in this suitcase, which must have belonged to a woman, a bundle of love letters. More and more she falls for these letters and the unknown who wrote them.

Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder".

Mientras una pareja disfruta de unas vacaciones en la montaña, descubren un cadáver escondido bajo la nieve. Deciden comunicarselo a la policía, pero ésta se muestra reticente a la investigación

The catastrophe is perfect: Gustav Klimt's world-famous "kiss" was stolen from the museum. What is a problem for some is a salvation for others. For the impoverished Count Leopold, the loss of the picture is an advantage, because now he can earn the sum insured for the family-owned work of art. For the fashion designer Isabella, theft is definitely a problem too much. Not only is her father Albert, who was supposed to guard the picture on the night of the crime, now with a heart attack in the hospital, he admits to her that the stolen Klimt made a self-made ...

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.

A newborn's destiny hangs in the balance, as grownups come to terms with what they cannot have.

Carmen es limpiadora y Chris es un exitoso hombre de negocios. Cuando él pierde 158 millones de euros de sus inversores, es acusado de malversación y es buscado por la policía. Carmen le ofrece ayuda.

Ópera prima del actor austriaco Markus Schleinzer (también habitual director de casting de Michael Haneke y Ulrich Seidl). Describe la vida cotidiana de Michael, un oficinista de 35 años, que tiene secuestrado a un niño de diez años en el sótano de su casa.

Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.

For months, the corrupt Viennese policeman Albert Schuh unsuccessfully investigates the murder case of his former friend and colleague. Then he gets a young, overambitious partner. The German colleague Thorsten Richter is a set of correctness and ambition, and thus the exact opposite of the Viennese, the "benefits" from the criminal scene is quite open. Since the two can not stand, the dispute does not stay out. The Austrian stops the German an unnecessary undercover job on an erotic chat line and determined alone on.

About a pathologist with a complicated life. His problems with himself, his colleagues and patients who come down to him, dead or alive.

A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.—KGF Vissers

A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.

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.

En la Viena actual, un ex convicto que trabaja para el dueño de un prostíbulo planea escaparse con su novia, una prostituta. Tras un atraco a un banco de las afueras, que sale mal por culpa de una muerte accidental, Alex se refugia en la granja de su abuelo, no lejos de la escena del crimen. Pasan los días, y cada vez se mete más en la vida de un policía local y de su mujer, mientras crece su obsesión por vengarse...

Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.

KOTSCH tells the story of four friends called Alf (Christoph Theußl), Boris (Andreas Kiendl), Chris (Michael Ostrowski) and Dalli (Michael Fuith), who grew up together in the small town Fohnsdorf in Styria.

A year ago, Katrin and Max got to know and love each other with the support of the phlegmatic bass dog Kurt. Should they now match their friends and marry? At first it doesn't look promising: Katrin is fighting for a job in London and Max is constantly gone, he seems to meet other women. The help of a second Christmas dog is needed to steer fate in the right direction.

Ana and Nicolae, a young Romanian couple, travel by bus from Bucharest to Vienna with the prospect of making quick money by handing over a stolen car. As soon as they arrive, however, they are reassured that the car is not yet ready for them. Ana then wants to go back to Romania, Nicolae would rather travel further west. They are stuck penniless in Vienna.

Kampl wants to bring love and inheritance matters into the right hands. His grandson Gabriel has plans about what's best for himself.

Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.

Honest cop Rudi is a new member of a police unit commanded by his brother-in-law Otto which deals with foreigners. Rudi falls in love with Alena, a young Czech living illegally in Austria