Hans Eder

A black comedy about the possibilities of donating life. Some donate their kidneys, others donate sperm. Ultimately, everyone wants to die with a clear conscience, for no one wants to live with it.

Dominik has been terrified by dentists since his childhood. So Helga, his fiance, rents a flat which was formerly a dental surgery. Their new landlord, Barbara, is a dentist and she runs her surgery next door. Helga persuades Dominik to move into the flat. For her a dream comes true but for Dominik a nightmare begins.

Excerpts from and insights into the world of the Austrian cabaret artist Otto Grünmandl. His work, his life and memories of his childhood in Tirol, which was overshadowed by the Nazi regime's persecution from 1938 - 1945.

A flare shoots through the night. "Red brothers" against right-wing extremists; immigrant groups against right-wing "louts"; knives and tear-gas against baseball bats. "WADADENG, WADADENG, listen to my 9 mm go BANG" ... Rap and hip-hop in Vienna.

"Guilt and Memory" is a contemporary history about four former high-ranking Austrian Nazis. On the subject of "dealing with memory", Marcel Ophüls writes, "Memory cannot be artificially activated - neither by events nor by censorship ... It has to be a personal act of remembering."

"Guilt and Memory" is a contemporary history about four former high-ranking Austrian Nazis. On the subject of "dealing with memory", Marcel Ophüls writes, "Memory cannot be artificially activated - neither by events nor by censorship ... It has to be a personal act of remembering."

The film focuses on the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. The picture it paints is one which could apply to other parts of Vienna and other European cities, an insight into daily reality revealing how little people know about each other and how thoughtlessly they expect strangers to behave according to their values. We hear the views of Austrians and immigrants, Yugoslavians and Turks who have lived here for twenty years. Their conversations reveal hatred of foreigners and children and prejudices not limited to a social class at all.

The Loiblpass is situated in the mountains between Austria and Yugoslavia: 12km from the village of Neumarktl and 10km from Ferlach in Carinthia. Between 1943 and 1945, political prisoners from the Mauthausen concentration camp drove a tunnel into the mountains at an altitude of 1200m. To this day, two people have been linked by this tunnel: Janko Tisler was an engineer in charge of the building site in 1944; today he lives in Krize, south of the tunnel. Dr. Sigbert Ramsauer, the SS doctor of the camp at the site then, at the age of 80 still practises in Klagenfurt. Janko Tisler fights against forgetting, Dr. Ramsauer wishes he were forgotten. The history of the tunnel has become theirs as well.