Norbert Schwientek

Basada en una novela del mismo título sobre el pueblo de Marmorera, donde en los años 50 fue sumergido el pueblo y los valles de alrededor para ser convertidos en una presa, en la actualidad encuentran a una joven sumergida en el lago de Marmorera que posteriormente será tratada psicológicamente al ver su forma de actuar y su obsesión por estar bajo el agua, para lo cual llamarán a un psicólogo de Zurich que casualmente nació en ese pueblo para que investigue y trate de ayudar a la extraña joven. A medida que la vaya conociendo, su obsesión por descubrir el oscuro secreto que guarda la joven irá en aumento.

Vitus es un chico que parece llegado de otro planeta: tiene un oído como el de un murciélago, toca el piano como un virtuoso y estudia enciclopedias a la edad de cinco años. Como es de suponer, sus padres le anticipan un brillante porvenir; quieren que sea pianista. Sin embargo, el pequeño genio prefiere tocar en el taller de su excéntrico abuelo, y sueña con volar y con tener una infancia normal. Finalmente, como consecuencia de un inesperado accidente, Vitus tomará las riendas de su propia vida.

Argentinian biology student Miro falls madly in love with young actress Mercedes, but is without a clue as to how to win her love. Then, a series of misunderstandings put him in the hot seat as a famous film director. Miro grabs his chance to shoot a film with Mercedes as his leading lady, hoping that she will fall for him. Whilst his plan is crazy, it is simple enough and Cupid is on his side. But Miro hasn't reckoned with film students Peter and Luigi who wish to shoot a “making-of” documentary of the great Argentinian “director”at work.

Una metáfora de una sociedad que manipula y aliena a los individuos que la conforman. Haneke muestra en esta obra su habilidad para generar en el espectador sensaciones que lo remiten constantemente a la angustia existencial del hombre contemporáneo.

Sweet, 12 year-old Stefanie, played by child model Soraya Da Mota, dreams of attacking her parents with a flail.

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.

Ulrich Muhe interpreta a un hombre de negocios alemán que ha nacido completamente sin escrúpulos. Esto le hace un candidato perfecto para tener éxito en los caóticos años posteriores a la I Guerra Mundial. Su historia es totalmente distinta a la de su polo opuesto, un anarquista judío.

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.

With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent have forced him to close down his flea circus. For Weiss, the plague means the «extinction of everything that makes life miserable and low and freedom along with it. Unbeknownst to him, he has won the support of a patron who is of the exact opposite opinion: for Johannes Wagner, the plague is an organising principle, and, aided by his agent Moosbrugger, he is able to smuggle a new number onto the programme. Whereas Ottocaro Weiss means to represent the plague theatrically, what appears on stage is the scientific reality of the rat-borne infestation.