Birgit Hutter

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan as chimney sweeps or spazzacamini. That is also young Giorgios fate. He is forced to climb through pitch black chimneys, flinging down the soot with his bare hands. But he does not lose heart. Together with his buddies sharing in the same misery, he establishes the association of Black Brothers. They stick together, struggling against their penury and getting involved in fights with the street gangs of Milan. The film tells of the gripping adventures of the chimney sweep boys and their spectacular escape back to their native land.

The vet Markus received the offer of taking over an animal centre in Africa. There he mets Arianne, a woman who is going through a troubled marriage.

Kari Tellenbach was born with a cleft palate. His mother takes care of him like a bird that has fallen out of the nest. As a young man Kari decides to become a barber and despite his handicap he wins the heart of Annemarie with his humour, charm and sensitivity. His happiness seems almost complete – but Annemarie’s middle class parents have already made other plans for their daughter.

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. In 1984, his autobiography "Fegefeuer" (Purgatory) became a bestseller.

아이거 북벽은 알프스의 3대 북벽 중 하나로 현재까지도 가장 등반하기 어려운, 등반 역사상 사망자가 가장 많은 곳이다. 1936년 독일은 올림픽 개회를 앞두고 국위 선양을 위한 죽음의 아이거 북벽 초등을 위해 전세계 등반가들을 부추긴다. 군에서 산악병으로 복무 중이던 토니 (벤노 퓨어만)와 앤디(플로리안 루카스)도 처음엔 너무 위험한 일이라 망설이지만, 아이거 북벽 초등에 성공하고 싶다는 일념으로 등반을 결심한다. 이 사실이 알려지자 기..

세기말의 흥분과 긴장감이 감돌던 1900년. 화려하고 관능적인 아르누보 스타일을 상징하는 클림트의 그림은 고국인 오스트리아 빈에서는 퇴폐적이라는 이유로 혹독한 야유를 받지만 파리는 환호와 찬사를 보낸다. 파리에서 열린 만국박람회에서 철학 이라는 작품으로 금메달을 수상한 클림트는 축하파티에서 프랑스 무희이자 여배우인 레아를 소개 받고 이때부터 그에게 터질듯한 영감과 고통을 동시에 안겨준 레아에 대한 열정이 시작된다. 환상의 뮤즈이자 에로틱한 이상, 육체적 욕망의 현신으로서 그녀는 클림트의 작품 속에 거울처럼 투영되고, 그녀의 아름다움과 여성성은 클림트로 하여금 사랑에 대한 영원한 탐색을 가능케 한다. 하지만 레아와 똑같이 생긴 또다른 레아가 등장하고 의문의 사나이가 자신을 그림자처럼 쫓자 클림트는 점차 환영에 시달리고 그의 정신적, 예술적 방황은 최고조에 이르게 되는데...

Kurt and Lydia are planning a relaxed vacation at the Gripsholm castle in Sweden . What Lydia does not know is that for Kurt, a well-known publicist, the journey is actually a flight from encroaching fascism and a direct threat from the Nazis.

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.

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.

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...

Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."

He gave her his devoted passion. He offered her a lasting relationship. He promised her a secure future. She thought he was all she ever wanted. Until she met everything she ever desired: the perfect body... on the perfect man... with a perfect opportunity for having a secret affair with a total stranger. Haunted by guilt, she is drawn uncontrollably into the powerful, beckoning arms of illicit lust and feverish obsession. But like a moth lured to the candle, the fire that now controls her could be the flame that one day consumes her.

Vienna in the thirties. Two Jewish thieves dress up as Orthodox Jews so that they can steal without being recognized. They mingle among the guests of a Jewish weddings causing chaos.

The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, which is generally referred to in English as The Vast Domain and was also adapted by Tom Stoppard as Undiscovered Country.

The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely springtime weather their future is full of promise. They are determined to stay clear of politics. Yet in the climate of the time, nobody of her prominence or his religion can remain apolitical. Although Martin's journalist friend, Drechsler, calls to inform them that the Nazis plan to take over Austria soon, they concentrate on their work and their private happiness and dismiss the warnings.